The Anatomy Of A Mugshot: Lynchburg's Criminal Profiles Unveiled

Verkkoin the 1880s, alphonse bertillon, an anthropologist and chief of the judicial identification service of france, invented the mug shot, a doubled. Verkkoa mug shot or mugshot (an informal term for police photograph or booking photograph) is a photographic portrait of a person from the shoulders up, typically taken after a. Verkkobertillon’s mug shot consisted of two photographs—one facing the camera, the other in profile—attached to a written description of physical features.

Verkkothe pose, framing, and formal conventions of the image are easily recognized throughout the general public. It is an image that is taken to indicate criminality. Verkkofrench criminologist alphonse bertillon wasn't the first to introduce mug shots to police, but he standardized how they were taken and added the profile shot to zero. Recent arrests provide a glimpse into the latest individuals taken into custody within the city of lynchburg.