ANTROPOLOGÍA CRIMINAL EN EL PORFIRIATO: LAS ESCUELAS DE ALPHONSE BERTILLON Y DE CESARE LOMBROSO EN MÉXICO

Abstract

The present paper, as part of the research «Criminal anthropology history and forensic physics anthropology in Mexico since XIX century», has as objetive the examination of the trajectory of the criminal anthropology in Mexico during the porfiriato (1880-1910), since the influence of the Alphonse Bertillon school, with his anthropometric system for subject identification, and Cesare Lombroso, father of the criminal man theory (born criminal theory), for the treatement of prisoners since the study of anatomorphologic and mental characters and particularities of the perpetrators of crimes and felonies, as soon as the use of physical features, craniometric and somatologic measures. Such a theories were especialy applied in ancients and moderns mexican prisons of epoch, such a Belen Jail and Puebla and Monterrey ones, who had as model the United States and Europe prisons.