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

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

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...

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...

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

Forensic sciences.

As part of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences’ natural, mathematical, and biomedical sciences programs, forensic sciences provides an understanding of the integration of forensic disciplines with the investigation of criminal activity, while providing an overview of the analytical methods, procedures, equipment, and data used by forensic specialists. Coursework emphasizes the identifica...

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...