The Police Composite Sketch

• Main Author: Mancusi, Stephen. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Forensic medicine.; Forensic Medicine.; Humanities.; Biomedicine.; Forensic Science.; Fine Arts.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-832-4

The police composite sketch, one of the most crucial investigative tools in law enforcement, is developed during a composite sessionan intense display of communication and art in which the words of a witness are transformed into the features of a suspect. Despite the incredible technological leaps...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I. FORENSIC ART and COMPOSITE ART
• II. THE COMPOSITE SESSION
• III. DRAWING THE COMPOSITE SKETCH
• IV. WITNESSES and VICTIMS
• V. DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGIES, RESPONSES and SOLUTIONS
• VI. MANAGING DIFFICULT COMPOSITE SESSIONS
• VII. GENERAL DRAWING TIPS
• VIII. COMPOSITE SESSION TIPS.