În prezenta lucrare se abordează istoricul apariţiei şi dezvoltării procedeelor de identificare a persoanelor şi implicit a prezentării spre recunoaştere. Autorul analizează opiniile diferitor savanţi, diferite aspecte care au dus la apariţia şi dezvoltarea pe parcursul istoriei a diferitor procedee de identificare a persoanelor.

Submission for recognition is one of the types of criminal prosecution aimed to establish the identity of persons. Development of human society throughout history there have been various methods of marking and identification of individuals, the vast majority of them in case of committing crimes. Mode of occurrence, use and development of these processes from the barbarian up to the fair and equitable moderne- were the object of study in this article..