Between faces and fingerprints. A closeness to the procedures applied to the judicial investigation for homicide in Medellín–Colombia (1900-1930)

This article tries to show the characteristics of several of the fundamental components of the judicial investigations for homicide in Medellín at the beginning of the XX century. In the first part, I will expose the way that expert and medical legists applied some scientific and technicians procedu...

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Autor principal: Alzate Alzate, Juan David
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Antioquia - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, unidad Cuajimalpa 2013
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Acceso en línea:http://aprendeenlinea.udea.edu.co/revistas/index.php/trashumante/article/view/16576
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-058&d=article16576oai
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Sumario:This article tries to show the characteristics of several of the fundamental components of the judicial investigations for homicide in Medellín at the beginning of the XX century. In the first part, I will expose the way that expert and medical legists applied some scientific and technicians procedures to carry out the description of the mortal suffering wounds for a victim. Afterwards, I will present the particular properties of two methods that were incorporated to the judicial trainings and to the identification of criminals in the city, they were the anthropometry and the dactyloscopy.