Forensic art essentials : a manual for law enforcement artists /

The demand for forensic art usage in investigations is rapidly expanding due to media attention. Despite this fact, to date no book thoroughly explains how to sketch a suspect's face from a witness memory. Forensic Art Essentials teaches artists to extract information from a witness or victim a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gibson, Lois
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Police artists > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Criminals > Identification > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Drawing > Technique > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Facial reconstruction (Anthropology) > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book Publisher description

Table of Contents:

CHAPTER ONE: THE MOST UNIQUE ART DISCIPLINE
CHAPTER TWO: DRAWING IN FORENSIC ART
CHAPTER THREE: PULLING FACES FROM WITNESS MEMORY
CHAPTER FOUR: SPECIAL REFINEMNTS TO THE INTERVIEW
CHAPTER FIVE: RACES, EXPRESSIONS, TEETH, WOMEN, VEHICLES, TATTOOS AND JEWELRY
CHAPTER SIX: AGE PROGRESSION AND POST MORTEM
CHAPTER SEVEN: FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION FROM SKELETAL REMAINS
CHAPTER EIGHT: THREE-DIMENSIONAL FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF SKELETAL REMAINS
CHAPTER NINE: IMPLEMENTATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS.
The most unique art discipline
Drawing in forensic art
Pulling faces from witness memory
Special refinements to the interview
Races, expressions, teeth, women, vehicles, tattoos, and jewelry
Age progression and postmortem: portraits of unidentified homicide complainants
Facial reconstruction from skeletal remains
Three-dimensional facial reconstruction of skeletal remains
Implementations and conclusions.