Alphonse Bertillon's Instructions for Taking Descriptions for the Identification

by Alphonse Bertillon

English, French (translation)

94 pages, Hardcover

About the author

French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon in 1880 devised the system, which formerly used means of a detailed record of body measurements, physical description, and photographs for identifying persons; the more accurate procedure of fingerprinting superseded this system.

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