![]() ![]() It was originally used in physical anthropology and paleoanthropology to understand the variances in human bodies before it was assimilated into criminology. 1 Anthropometry is the use of human body measurements for identification purposes. Alphonse Bertillon, Frontispiece of Identification Anthropométrique: Instructions Signalétiques (1893).ĭeveloped by French police officer Alphonse Bertillon in the 1870s, and published as a book in 1893, the “Bertillon System” paired anthropometric measurements with “mug shots,” police booking photographs featuring a shoulder-up views of the front and side of a subject before a plain background. ![]() The accuracy of the system depended on uniform approaches to collecting these biometrics. These illustrations instruct law-enforcement officials on the proper collection of several measurements for Bertillon’s anthropometric identification system. ![]()
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