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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... clerks took photographs , a physical description , and eleven an- thropometric measurements . Using West's measurements and descrip- tion , identification clerks matched him to the record of a William West , who had a previous ...
... clerks filled in these spaces , not with the standardized morphological terms enu- merated in Bertillon's instruction manuals , but with arbitrary , collo- quial terms drawn from everyday language . Ears might be " medium and flaring ...
... clerks " who oversaw the taking of anthropometric measurements and the completing and filing of Bertillon cards . Some were police officers , others were civilian employees of police depart- ments , prisons , or courts . They presided ...
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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