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Criminal Antropology

🦈⚖️Within the framework of criminal offences, the lion's share of criminal activity itself is occupied by counteraction to the investigation and disclosure of crimes by criminals. One of the most common ways to avoid criminal prosecution for crimes is the three ways to change the individuality that criminals around the world have been using over the centuries:

  • Change of appearance

  • Change of name

  • Change of documents.

However, none of these changes is irreversible, and is revealed by criminalists. The possibility of change made by criminals is limited by objective biological and genetic factors.


Changing the appearance for the criminal means making such a change in the anthropological dimensions of the face to become unrecognizable compared to his previous photos. The fact is that anthropological measurements of the person's face and body remain unchanged after the completion of growth throughout life, and change only due to mechanical influence - trauma or surgery. Plastic surgeries performed by criminals have no aesthetic goals. They are aimed at modifying anthropological and ethnic characteristics. The main ways to modify the appearance used by criminals to modify anthropological measurements and ethnic characteristics of a photo portrait are as follows:

  • Hair growth line transfer

  • Skin transplant on the forehead (to transfer the hair growth line and replace facial relief)

  • Transfer of the eyebrow line

  • Plastic chin with a change in its size

  • Nose plastic with a change in its size

  • Eyelid plastic to modify the ethnic profile (e.g. lower eyelid to get rid of the Mongoloid incision of the eyes)

  • Earlobe plastic to simulate a different ear planting on the skull

  • Plastic cheekbones

  • Cheek plastic

  • Lips plastic.


As a result, a picture is recreated on the face with a change in all anthropological measurements. However, it is impossible to change them completely. Special forensic identification procedures are carried out to identify the identity of the offender's new redesigned image. Within the framework of them, in addition to modelling anthropological characteristics, other unique characteristics of the criminal are studied as well: voice, handwriting, gait, behavior, vocabulary, food and everyday habits, blood group, genetic parameters (haplogroup and haplotype).


Thus, changing the appearance of the criminal only complicates the process of his capture, but does not make him impossible.


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