Finishing Bertillon History of Forensic Science 82814 DRILL

Finishing Bertillon History of Forensic Science 8/28/14

DRILL: Write down the 6 differences between the two pictures. Answers: Hair tie, mouse hole, table leg, phone cord, missing watch band

Objectives IWBAT Explain the Bertillon/ Anthropometry system, and put it in historical context. Solve a mystery using deductive reasoning. Collect Bertillon Lab Blue parent letter?

Agenda Drill Pd. 3 – PRIDE Pact Pd. 3 – Finish Bertillon Lab Bertillon and Anthropometry Notes Clue Logic Puzzle Closure

PRIDE Pact We will work together to create a lab-focused social contract for the room. We will use the Bertillon activity for context. Consider these questions: How could technology be used appropriately during this activity? What was it like to work together? How did you resolve any issues? Did you feel safe during the activity? What kind of support do you want from your teacher? What kind of support do you want from your lab mates?

Pd. 3 PRIDE Pact Use technology at appropriate times. Both the teacher and students should be respectful to each other. No homework on test days, or Breaks. Everyone will be thoughtful in group selection.

Pd. 3 – Bertillon Lab You will work with the person who is across from you at the table. If there is no one across from you, look around—there should be a few others in the same situation! Work in pairs. Your only equipment is A meter stick A ruler Your lab sheet Once you have recorded data on your sheet, transfer it to the sheets that Ms. Bloedorn has put on the board.

Will West Information 1903 – Leavenworth Prison, KS Pre-existing Bertillon card with essentially identical measurements

Bertillon Lab! What to do when done? Work on the questions. What about #3? Cross it out!!! (or look it up for XC)

Conclusion/Discussion Is the Bertillonage / Anthropometry system an effective and easy-to-use identification system? Why, why not? Name two factors that could cause error in the measurements taken. Would you consider this the best method of human classification?

Anthropometry system Anthropo. Human Being -Metry Science of Measuring Anthropometry = Measurement of Humans

Anthropometry system Developed by French scientist Alphonse Bertillon in 1879 a police department file clerk in Paris Father of criminal identification complex method of measuring and categorizing individuals during the second half of the 19 th century

Anthropometry System Collected numerous body measurements and categorized various facial features of a person Photographs of each individual Used to create a unique identification card used in the United States and in Europe to identify criminals in the penal system from the late 19 th to early 20 th centuries (late 1800’s to early 1900’s)

Anthropometric Card

What is the difference between these two cards?

Anthropometry System The complexity of the system made it difficult and it gave way to a new identification method—fingerprinting —in early 20 th century.

Clue Logic Puzzle You will receive: Clue Logic Problem (information sheet) Clue Logic Puzzle (answer sheet) Use the information given on the information sheet to solve the crimes. You must use deductive reasoning to solve the crimes! If you like, you can set it up like a Sudoku.

Closure Put this Closure on the bottom of the same page on which you wrote your Drill. “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ” How does this quotation from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes apply to the Clue Logic Puzzle?