Article ID: CBB658681240

Physogs: A Game with Consequences (2019)

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In 1939, an unusual card game, Physogs, debuted in the United Kingdom. Based on physiognomic principles, it instructed players as to how to read and construct facial features and character types. Thirty years later, a new form of composite facial recognition, Photofit, was incorporated into the practice of the British police. Both projects, Physogs and Photofit, were the brainchild of one man, Jacques Penry, representing his twentieth-century iteration of physiognomy. How did a card game become an origin point for a new approach to policing?

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Authors & Contributors
Pearl, Sharrona Hyla
Berveling, Jaco
Martinez, Cristina S.
Florian Bettel
Weitzenkorn, Rachel
Quinlan, Andrea
Concepts
Police; criminal justice departments
Criminology
Physiognomy
Forensic sciences
Science and law
Faces
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Thailand
California (U.S.)
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