Signaletic Instructions: Including the Theory and Practice of Anthropometrical Identification - Couverture rigide
Synopsis
Signaletic Instructions: Including The Theory And Practice Of Anthropometrical Identification (1896) is a book written by Alphonse Bertillon, a French police officer and biometrics researcher. The book is a comprehensive guide to the practice of anthropometry, a method of identifying individuals based on their physical measurements and characteristics. In the book, Bertillon provides detailed instructions on how to measure various parts of the body, such as the head, arms, legs, and torso, and how to record these measurements in a standardized way. He also discusses the importance of taking into account other physical features, such as scars, tattoos, and moles, in order to create a complete signaletic description of an individual.The book includes numerous illustrations and diagrams to help readers understand the techniques and methods described. Bertillon also provides case studies and examples of how anthropometry has been used in criminal investigations and in identifying missing persons.Overall, Signaletic Instructions is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of biometrics and forensic science, as well as for those involved in law enforcement and criminal investigation.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Excerpt from Signaletic Instructions: Including the Theory and Practice of Anthropometrical Identification
A very considerable portion of the crimes and wrongs which disturb the order of human society result either directly or indirectly from the apparent impossibility of distinguishing in every case and with unerring certainty one individual from another. It is for this reason, especially, that so many of the professional and habitual criminals who abound in every land have hitherto gone "unwhipt of justice."
Men would be unlikely to render themselves liable to the penalties of the law if they knew that, wherever they might flee, their identity could not fail to be discovered. A sure means of identification would not only have the effect of deterring from crime in general, but would evidently nullify all attempts of whatever kind at u substitution of persons. No impersonations of a pensioner, or a missing heir, or a business man could ever hope to be successful.
How much more precious still would such a means of identification be if it could be applied, not only to the living man, but to his dead body, even when crushed, mangled or dismembered beyond the recognition of his nearest friends and relatives! The life insurance companies and associations of mutual benevolence, for example, could not be robbed under cover of the pretended death of the holder of a policy, indicated by the finding of a body resembling his, or unrecognizable by ordinary means on account of mutilation, fire or decay, but dressed in his clothes and furnished with his papers. Then, too, those who fell in battle, no matter how mutilated they might be, would not need to be buried in nameless graves, but could be recognized and taken, when peace returned, to lie among their own kin.
This powerful instrument of social order is already in existence. One of the most remarkable steps in modern progress is the development of a new form of applied science which has for its...
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