Alphonse Bertillon was born in Paris on April 24, 1853. He was the son of the illustrious physician, anthropologist and physician Louis Adolphe Bertillon (bookrags.com). Young Alphonse was seen as desperate in his father's eyes. He often suffered from migraines and nosebleeds, was very shy and lacked social skills. However, the young Bertillon was not a complete loss, he was an intellectual thirsty for knowledge and shared his father's interest in statistics and anthropology (http://jimfisher.edinboro.edu). In the year 1875, Bertillon was drafted into the French army. After several years of armed service Bertillon was discharged. Without higher education or degrees, Bertillon struggled to find work. In 1879, at the age of twenty-six, his father found him a job as an assistant clerk in the criminal records office of the Paris Police Department where he would transfer arrest and criminal record data from various sources onto standard forms ( http://jimfisher.edinboro.edu) Bertillon was reluctant to accept the monotonous work. However, he saw this job as a means of gaining independence from his father. He threw himself into his work with enthusiasm. From the beginning, Bertillon realized that the collection of criminal records at the Paris Police Department had no organized storage method. The department had more than five million files that included approximately 80,000 mug shots. Bertillon quickly realized that, due to the enormous number of documents and the lack of an organized filing system, it was virtually impossible to find and retrieve a specific file, making the collection of criminal records completely useless. Bertillon began to look for a solution to this enormous problem. problem......half of the paper......coming from the same person. Although Bertillon's system proved fallible, Bertillon's many advances in criminology paved the way for numerous advances in criminal identification. Works Cited “Forensic Science.” Forensic science. Np, Jan. 7, 2008. Web. Nov. 11, 2013. Gale, Thompson. "Biography of Alphonse Bertillon". BookRags. BookRags and Web. November 11, 2013. "Bertillon System of Criminal Identification." Bertillon criminal identification system. NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM, n.d. Web. November 11, 2013. “Visible Evidence: Forensic Views of the Body: Galleries: Technologies: The Bertillon System.” United States National Library of Medicine. US National Library of Medicine, July 18, 2012. Web. November 11, 2013Kiger, Patrick J. "Discovery Online, Dead Inventors - Alphonse Bertillon." Discovery Online, Dead Inventors - Alphonse Bertillon. Np, nd Web. November 11. 20