Bertillon

American  

[bur-tl-on, ber-tee-yawn] / ˈbɜr tlˌɒn, bɛr tiˈyɔ̃ /

noun

1. Alphonse 1853–1914, French criminologist and anthropologist: devised the Bertillon system.

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Example Sentences

In many larger cities during the 1890s and early 1900s, the booking and photographing of an arrested person was also accompanied by the taking of Bertillon measurements.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2020

For all its brash Americanness, “Crime Stories”—and the genre of crime photography itself—is indelibly shaped by the work of the nineteenth-century French police officer Alphonse Bertillon.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2016

The exhibition includes a set of about 60 wallet-size mug shots of suspected anarchists from French police files of 1891-95 made by Bertillon or by technicians trained in his methods.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016

Next to it is an image from 1902 attributed to Alphonse Bertillon, a Paris police chief credited with developing the mug shot and an early practitioner of crime-scene photography.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2012

The book was by one of his former assistants, and it provides a window into how Bertillon and Lépine thought.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day