Forensic Facial Approximation : an Overview of Current Methods Used at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine / Victoria Police Criminal

Forensic facial approximation: an overview of current methods used at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine/Victoria Police Criminal Identification Squad.

Forensic facial approximation involves building a likeness of the head and face on the skull of an unidentified individual, with the aim that public broadcast of the likeness will trigger recognition in those who knew the person in life. This paper presents an overview of the collaborative practice between Ronn Taylor (Forensic Sculptor to the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine) and Detec...

An Overview of Hydrogen Sulfide Suicides Based on Police Data in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

What is Forensic Computing?

Adam Graycar Director Developments in information technology have begun to pose new challenges for policing. Most professions have had to adapt to the digital age, and the police profession must be particularly adaptive, because criminal exploitation of digital technologies necessitates new types of criminal investigation. More and more, information technology is becoming the instrument of crim...

Computerised Facial Construction and Reconstruction

FACES ARE FASCINATING. THE COMBINATION OF FIVE BASIC FACIAL FEATURES can create millions of variations. From the time when mankind began to draw on cave walls, artists have endeavoured to produce what the eye perceives in hard-copy. Along with the infinite naturally-occurring facial variations, human error in the form of individual perceptiveness widens the degree of inaccuracy in portraying th...

Manifestations of Forensic Medical Intervention at Trial and Execution Punishment Stages

Among the different stages of the criminal process, the stages of trial and execution of punishment are very important because at the trial stage, the final decision was made on the person's criminality, and the previous actions of the criminal justice system were effective at the stage of the execution of the sentence, and the sentence is implemented. A look at legislative and judicial policy ...