Suspect Identities“No two fingerprints are alike,” or so it goes. For nearly a hundred years fingerprints have represented definitive proof of individual identity in our society. We trust them to tell us who committed a crime, whether a criminal record exists, and how to resolve questions of disputed identity. |
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... Alphonse Bertillon . While legislators debated the merits of the relégation law , Bertillon raised a practical question . " It is not enough to make a law against recidivists , " he pointed out . " It is then necessary to enforce it ...
... Bertillon , Legal Photography , trans . Paul R. Brown ( New York , 1897 ) , 30 . 20. Rhodes , Alphonse Bertillon , 75-101 ; newspaper quoted in Frank Smyth , Cause of Death : The Story of Forensic Science ( New York : Van Nostrand ...
... Alphonse Bertillon , Signaletic Instructions : Including the Theory and Practice of Anthropometrical Identification , trans . R. W. McClaughry ( Chicago , 1896 ) , 13 ; DePue , " The DePue System , " 97 . 20. " The Bertillon System of ...
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
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