Alphonse Bertillon a Frenchman was the first to create a method use for criminal identification. His system was solely based on the classification of skeletal body measurements and characteristics. Bertillon’s method was based only on eleven bodily measurements as well as eye color, hair, and the skin. His classification was adopted by France in 1888. The difficulties of Bertillon’s system made it hard to profile and identify criminals, therefore, a new identification method needed to be created. Fingerprinting became available in the early 20th century (Holtyman).
Argentina was the first country to replace the Bertillon system of measurements with fingerprints when Juan Vucetich solves a murder using bloody fingerprints. In 1896 Edward Henry develops the prototype fingerprint classification system now used in the United States and Europe(Deslich 5).With the establishment of this new system in 1902 Harry Jackson a burglar becomes the first Englishmen to be convicted solely on the basis of fingerprints(Deslich 6).
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