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Craniofacial identification

This book brought together experts from around the world to establish standards and to describe advances and the latest research. The author acted as editor with another member of her research team (Chris Rynn). Both authors also contributed chapters to the book. These included:

Cpt 12- Facial Image Comparison – the problems associated with the individualisation of people depicted in photographic forensic evidence such as closed circuit television (CCTV) images are described. Evidence of this type may be presented in court and, therefore this evidence is discussed in relation to reliability, accuracy and importance. This chapter was co-authored by other face image experts from the University of Greenwich and the University of London. New research results relating to reliability are presented.

Cpt 14 – Post-mortem prediction of facial appearance – written with a former PhD student and describes the context and history of post-mortem depiction, the taphonomic processes involved in the degradation of facial appearance, the methods used and the reliability of those methods. New research results relating to facial decomposition and facial prediction from partially decomposed remains are presented.

Cpt 16 – Relationships between the skull and the face – co-authored by Dr Rynn, from this research team, in collaboration with high profile Russian researchers. This chapter introduces new research results for the prediction of facial features from skull assessment and summarised previous research.

Cpt 18- Computer-generated facial depiction – written with a colleague from the research team and describes new and unique methods of computer generated facial depiction. These methods are described in full for the first time in the literature from this field and examples of historical cases are used to present results.

Cpt 20 – Juvenile facial reconstruction – an up-date to this subject and covers new data in relation to facial growth, recognition and depiction.