El Delito Con Rostro: Los comienzos de la identificación de delincuentes en Uruguay.

This article aims to analyze tensions at the beginning of the twentieth century between the two main methods of identifying criminal offenders ("bertillonnage" and dactyloscopy). It therefore highlights the need to produce efficient control mechanisms, converting the police into an increasingly specialized agency better placed to identify and pursue what was perceived as a growth in criminality. In the eyes of the dominant groups, working class and dangerous people are considered one and the same, with the latter nucleus including certain sectors of immigrants and groups seen as a new form of "crime": the social. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]