... to the creation of more identifiable composites. Therefore, the findings suggest that this artistic rendition technique enhances both the cognitive interview and the accuracy of forensic facial composites. It was also found that participants’ self-rated measures of drawing and observant behaviour were positively...

...Dr Charlie D. Frowd; Josh P Davis; Stacie Simmons; Lucy Sulley; Chris Solomon; Stuart Gibson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe four experiments evaluating post-production enhancement techniques with facial composites mainly created using the EFIT-V holistic system. Design...

...Dr Charlie D. Frowd; Cristina Fodarella; Heidi Kuivaniemi-Smith; Julie Gawrylowicz; Charlie D. Frowd Purpose – The paper provides a detailed description of standard procedures for constructing facial composites. These procedures are relevant to forensic practice and are contained in the technical...

...Dr Charlie D. Frowd; Charlie D. Frowd; William B. Erickson; James M. Lampinen; Faye C. Skelton; Alex H. McIntyre; Peter J.B. Hancock Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of seven variables that emerge from forensic research on facial-composite construction and naming using...

...Charlie Frowd; Gemma Hepton The police often ask witnesses and victims to construct a facial composite of people they have seen committing a crime. Research has suggested, however, that these images are of poor quality due to memory decay, the face construction method used and the presence...