The Metric System of Identification of Criminals

As Used in Great Britain and Ireland.by J.G. Garson. “The warrant appointing the Committee directed them to inquire (a) into the method of registering and identifying habitual criminals then in use in England; (b) into the “ Anthropometric ” system of classified registration and identification in use in France and other countries; (c) into the suggested system of identification by means of a record of finger -marks; to report whether the anthropometric system or the finger-mark system could, with advantage, be adopted into England, either in substitution for, or to supplement the then existing methods, and, if so, what arrangements should be adopted for putting them into practice, and what rules should be made under Section 8 of the Penal Servitude Act, 1891, for the photographing and measuring of prisoners.” London: Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 1900. 38p.