HIST 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Buenos Aires Provincial Police, Fingerprint, Hm Prison Holloway
Document Summary
Had the idea working in buenos aires - measurements of feet taken with the socks on. 1896 - buenos aires police officially adopt his fingerprinting methods. Dissemination of the argentine dactyloscopy system in the early twentieth century: Vucetich - inventor of one of the two main types of fingerprinting. Growing urbanization and immigration - greater crime rates, views toward foreigners change. Dactyloscopy is cheap and doesn"t require training for people; less invasive and dishonouring. 1905 - across countries they exchanged criminal records of potentially dangerous people (threat to society) with fingerprinting info on them. Anthropometry - difficult to do on young people, more equipment, more personnel training. Mass immigration in latin america gave a good platform for dactyloscopy to expand. Imprint of the raj: how fingerprinting was born in colonial india. Tried to develop facial recognition - holloway prison not run into the same officers again, etc.
