Bertillon and Galton. Probabilistic arguments related to the identification of criminals
ISSN: 1889-3805
Datum der Publikation: 2013
Ausgabe: 29
Nummer: 2
Seiten: 129-140
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: BEIO, Boletín de Estadística e Investigación Operativa
Zusammenfassung
The aim of this paper is to make a historical review on probabilistic arguments, principally provided by Alphonse Bertillon, with the aim of sentencing the Jewish captain Alfred Dreyfus for espionage, as well as the arguments against the sentence given to Henri Poincar´e. Bertillon was the creator of anthropometry as a method of identifying criminals. In contrast to the method developed by Bertillon, Francis Galton was a strong advocate of the method of fingerprint with probabilistic arguments to carry out identifications.