Printed catalogue of Mexican criminal photojournalism examples taken since the end of the Revolution to the first four decades of the 20th century. The images, disturbing images characteristic for their sensationalism and avant-garde violence are part of the holdings of the Casasola Archive. Author Lerner describes how Mexico started in 1854 taking photographs of convicted criminals in the jail of Belen with the purpose of creating criminal control records, using the Bertillon anthropometric method and later the Edward Henry's fingerprint method as identification techniques.