Bertillon
Americannoun
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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
As far as we know, such a system doesn’t yet exist, but computerized biometric identification technologies like facial and gait recognition software have significantly advanced the Bertillon approach.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2016
Bertillon instituted a method focused on measurements of certain body parts, precise descriptions and mug shots.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2016
In 1894, the French criminologist Bertillon had helped to wrongfully convict Alfred Dreyfus of treason, having presented a wildly incorrect handwriting analysis.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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