The order and rules for describing the external appearance of a person. Methodology for describing the signs of a person's appearance (method of verbal portrait)

Instruction

Start a verbal portrait by describing the anatomical features of a person. Describe his appearance, noting gender, age, race, height and physique. If it is difficult to identify the race, you can say what kind of representative of the people he looks like: a gypsy, a Buryat, a Japanese. The physique of a person is weak, medium, stocky and athletic. According to the degree of fatness, it can be attributed to thin, normal, full, obese. Here you can also mention the features of his figure - the presence of a hump, stoop or pronounced asymmetry.

Proceed to describe the shape of the head, hair and face. As characteristic features of the head, indicate its size relative to the general physique and the shape of the occiput - vertical, oblique, convex. Speaking of hair, note its color, length, density, structure (straight, curly), the presence of gray hair and bald patches, signs of coloring. Describe the hairstyle and haircut.

Talking about the face, let's not only general information about its shape, contour, degree of fullness and such features as the presence of acne and wrinkles, but also information about all other parts in detail. Describe the height, width, and contour of the forehead and eyebrows. When talking about the eyes, note their color, relative position, cut, shape and bulge. If the person wears glasses, please indicate so. Describe in no less detail the shape and location of the nose, lips, mouth, teeth, chin, and ears.

Describe characteristics other parts of the body: neck, shoulders, chest, back and limbs. Special attention pay attention to the palms and fingers - the thickness, the absence of individual fingers or their phalanges, signs of arthritis, the shape and size of the nails.

Great importance when compiling a verbal portrait, it is given to functional features - gait, posture, gestures, facial expressions, voice. They can be specially modified and are not as stable as anatomical features, but often help to complement general idea about a human.

If yes, please describe special features - scars, tattoos, piercings, missing body parts, lameness. Describe the clothes and accessories that the person was wearing. The verbal portrait is ready!

A person has many external signs, but all of them can be attributed to two large groups. Thanks to these groups of characteristics, a verbal portrait of any person is created, a description of the appearance helps in identifying the person.

Feature groups

The first group is anatomical. It is with its help that you can convey the anatomical structure of a person, any features of his appearance, these signs make it possible to determine gender, set a range of age and height, and show what kind of physique a person has. Anthropological features of a person are also described by this group, and these are physical features, racial characteristics, approximate nationality, what kind of face a person has, elements on it, what is the structure of the body, the proportions of the arms and legs in relation to the body, the shape of the head, hairstyle, other features of appearance.

The second group of features is dynamic. With the help of this group, the features of human movements are described, most of them are based on processes that can be called conditioned reflex. It is they that characterize the features of gestures, gait, head movements and other body movements that a person practically does not control with the help of willpower. A person has a lot of unconscious movements and postures, these are facial expressions and posture, as well as gait. For example, it is almost impossible for a lame person to control the evenness and uniformity of his gait; due to a physical feature, he will crouch or drag on one leg.

Why is a verbal portrait created?

In forensics, a person's appearance is described in special terms, a verbal portrait is created. A person can arbitrarily slightly change his gait, follow gestures, but he is not able to change the functionality of the body as a whole. All body movements are very stable, at the same time they are unique. The created verbal portrait helps to identify not only living people, but also corpses.

There are several ways to identify a person by a verbal portrait: present a suspect for identification, compare a description of appearance and a photo portrait. Criminologists try to convey as accurately as possible all the nuances of a person’s appearance in the description, since initially no one knows exactly which signs will play a decisive role in the search.

Description starts with common features, smaller ones are mentioned below. The gender comes first, then the approximate age, and only then the whole figure is outlined, then the head, shoulders, neck, chest, face, special signs. It is they who are especially valuable, since getting rid of tattoos, scars, lameness, ticks is not something that is not easy, it is almost impossible. Even plastic surgery does not help, since it does not affect the main biometric parameters, the shape of the skull is what it was, and will be.

Forensic identification of a person by signs of appearance

Identification of a person is possible not only by papillary hand patterns, composition of hair, blood, saliva, semen, nails, bone remains, scent substances, traces of lips, teeth, shoes, legs, but also on the basis of a person's appearance, i.e. according to the totality of visually perceived external data. Forensic science also uses the terms "habitology" And "gabitoscopy" which reflect the concepts of science and descriptions of the external appearance of a person.

In order to organize the search for a hidden criminal, as well as to identify an unknown person or a corpse, it is necessary to collect and possibly more fully and accurately record forensically significant signs his appearance.

The scientific basis for using the description of the external appearance of a person for his identification, first of all, was the established and proven position that when a certain age (about 25 years) is reached, the bone-cartilage base and the appearance of a person stabilize. The scientific forensic basis is a specially developed system for describing a person, for his identification, search, crimes static accounting. Appearance features are the following properties: uniqueness, stability, visibility. These signs are divided into two main groups: anatomical (static), characterizing the external structure of the human body, its parts and cover, and functional (dynamic), expressed in habitual, automated movements, the position of the human body (posture, gait, gestures, facial expressions, skills skills, habits). The characteristic of the general physical elements that make up the physical type of a person (sex, age, racial-ethnic and constitutional type) is essential for identification on the basis of appearance.

The external appearance of a person, in addition, is characterized by the so-called special and catchy signs. Special signs are rare congenital or acquired signs during life, which are deviations from the normal structure or condition or condition (anomalies). Moreover, anatomical special signs include physical defects (curvature of the spine, fused fingers, tattoos, etc.), and functional ones include the manner of holding the head, speaking, gesticulation, facial expressions, etc. Catchy signs are those signs that are relatively rare and easily detected, as they are located on exposed parts of the body. For a verbal portrait, accompanying features are also important: a description of clothes, shoes, wrist watch, lighters, rings, glasses and other things-accessories that people are used to, are constantly used by them.

Signs of appearance have varying degrees of stability. The most stable are anatomical features determined by the bone and cartilage basis (shape and size of the forehead, back of the nose, auricles, etc.). The identification value of any trait depends not only on its stability, but also on the frequency of occurrence (rare traits have a greater identification value). Therefore, the reliability of identification depends on the selected set of compared features and the correct assessment of their identification value.

"Verbal" portrait, order of compilation, forensic significance

To identify a person by external signs, forensic science uses a special system for describing a person's appearance (verbal portrait). This system was first developed A. Bertillon in 1879, published in the pamphlet " Practical use anthropometry" (1881), and then improved and simplified R. A. Reiss in 1911. It is used in forensic registration, to search for hidden criminals and missing persons, in the course of expert identification of living persons and corpses. The description is carried out in a certain sequence (from general to particular, from top to bottom) using special terminology. Anatomical features are described by size, position, size, shape, color; facial features are described in two positions - full face and right profile. The value of the sign is determined in comparison with other parts of the face, body (very large, large, medium, small, very small). Geometric terms are used to describe the shape (straight, convex, concave, oval, etc.). The position of the exterior elements is characterized as horizontal, vertical, oblique internal, raised, lowered, protruding, retracted.

At present, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has adopted next system verbal portrait:

1. Gender (male, female).

2. Age (children - up to 12 years old, adolescent (12-16 years old), youthful (17-21 years old), young (22-35 years old), middle (36-60 years old), elderly (61-75 years old) and senile (76- 90).

3. Height ("dwarf" - up to 1m, low (up to 155cm - for women, up to 65cm - for men), medium (155-165cm - for women and 165-175cm - for men), high (more than 165cm - for women and more than 175 cm - for men), "giant" - more than 2).

4. Physique in terms of skeleton and muscles (weak, medium, stocky, athletic); by body fat (lean, average fatness, full, obese);

5. Face shape in front: in width (round, oval, triangular, rectangular, square, diamond-shaped); in height (elongated, medium, wide); by completeness (thin, average fullness, full); by features - skin defects (pigmentation, streaked, smallpox scars, etc.);

6. Forehead: height (high, medium, low); in width (wide, medium, narrow); in relation to the vertical (contour) (straight, convex, concave); by slope in profile (beveled, vertical, protruding); features (according to the severity of the superciliary arches and the presence of frontal tubercles) - the frontal fossa, a tumor in the frontal and temporal parts.

7. Eyebrows: by length (short, medium, long); in width (narrow, medium, wide); by density (rare, medium, thick); in the direction - horizontal, beveled with the outer ends up, down; along the contour (relative to the edge of the eye orbit) - high, medium, low; features (bushy, fused, asymmetric, etc.);

8. Eyes: according to the position of the palpebral fissure (horizontal, oblique, oblique internal); according to the degree of opening of the palpebral fissure (triangular, slit-like, almond-shaped); according to the degree of convexity of the eyeballs (convex, sunken, normal); by color (blue, gray, greenish, brown, etc.); size (large, medium, small); in shape (round, oval); on the inner corners of the eyes (rounded, pointed); by features (strabismus, cataract, prosthesis); according to anomalies (multicolor, the presence of spots of a different color or a grayish border in the iris).

9. Hoc: by length (long, medium, short); height (long, medium, short); by the depth and width of the nose bridge (large, medium, small); in width (wide, medium, narrow); By performance(large, medium); according to the position of the base of the nose (horizontal, lowered, raised); according to the shape of the tip of the nose (rounded, pointed); according to the position of the wings of the nose (raised, lowered, average), along the contour of the nostrils (oval, triangular, slit-like); according to the size of the nostrils (large medium, small); by features (very narrow (wide), excessive speech, congenital curvature, nose shade (reddish, bluish, etc.);

10. Lips: by thickness (thick, medium, thin); by position (protruding, retracted (one upper, one lower), no protrusion); according to the width of the border of the lips (large, medium, small); along the contour of the border of the upper lip (straight, sinuous, oval); by features (the presence of a "cleft lip", invertedness upper lip, chapped); by shades of lips (bluish, pale, red, etc.);

11 Mouth; size (large, medium, small); according to the position of the corners of the mouth (horizontal, raised lowered); by features (mouth ajar, sunken, asymmetry of the corners of the mouth, etc.);

12. Chin: height (high, medium, low); in width (wide, medium, narrow); by position (straight, protruding, beveled); in shape (along the contour of the lower edge) - oval, triangular, square; by features (presence of a fossa, bifurcation, transverse furrow, "double" chin, pendulous, etc.);

13. Auricle: in size (large, medium, small); in shape (rectangular, triangular, round, oval); fit (protrusion)- upper, lower, general; by features (asymmetry in size, shape);

Lobe: by size (large, medium, small); in shape (rounded, triangular, oval, rectangular); by features (lobe fused with the cheek; the presence of a transverse or longitudinal fold, pierced). Antitragus- horizontal, beveled; straight, concave, convex. Curl (outer edge of the ear) and antihelix(inner part) may have a characteristic shape and position. The diversity and stability of the anatomical features of the structure of the auricle increases its info mative and identification value. In addition, it should be noted that this detail, as a rule, is visible and well viewed from the side, which does not arouse the suspect's alertness if he is seen in a crowd or among a large number people in the hall.

14. Coloring of the skin of the face (pink, gray, bluish, etc.);

15. Wrinkles (number, position, direction, shape);

16. Hair on the head: along the length (short, middle length, long); in shape (wavy, curly, curly); by density (thick, medium density, rare); by color (black, dark blond, blond, light blond, red); along the contour of the growth line (straight, arcuate, winding, broken); by the nature of the hairstyle (low, high haircut, combed (back, right, left), location of the parting (straight, left, right), by the degree and localization of baldness (general, on the crown, on the back of the head, temples, etc.); the presence of a mustache, beard, sideburns (shape, size, color, haircut style);

17. Teeth: by size (large, medium, small); by shape (contour - even, sinuous; by the color of tooth enamel (white, yellow, blackened); by features (absence, damage, the presence of prostheses, fillings, crowns; rare, crooked teeth, etc.);

18. Neck: height, thickness, features;

19. Shoulders: width, slope;

20. Torso: chest width, back contour;

21. Arms: total length and width; Brush: length and width; Fingers: length, thickness, features;

22. Legs: total length and width; Foot: length, width, features;

23. Skin signs (scars, birthmarks, tumors, tattoos, calluses, professional staining of individual skin areas): position, shape, size, color;

Functional (dynamic) features:

24. Posture (usual position): torso, head, arms;

25. Gait: pace of movement, positioning of the legs during movement, step length, step angle, features;

26. The way to perform certain actions;

30. Speech: pace, emotional expression of feelings, intelligibility, pronunciation defects, accent, vocabulary;

Accessories:

31 Clothing: name, material, color, style, finish, size, brand, degree of wear, damage, conformity of the size to the person's height, wearing habit.

The description of individual objects - personal belongings, should be as detailed as possible, since in certain cases they can play the role of catchy signs.

Preparation of materials for expert identification of a person from photographs

A forensic photo-portrait examination is carried out in order to identify a person by signs of appearance captured in photographs. The success of expert identification based on photographs largely depends on the thoroughness of the preparation of the material submitted for the study. Examination requires high-quality images of faces photographed with a small gap in time and approximately in the same conditions (person's posture, lighting, state of individual elements of appearance), i.e. the images being compared must be comparable.

The question is usually raised about the permission of a photo-portrait examination; the same or different faces are depicted in the photographs.

Photo-portrait examination is carried out using the following methods.

1. Comparative method (comparison, combination, overlay),

Image comparison - oriented square grids are applied to face images, and the identified features on the compared images should not only match in shape, size and position, but also be placed in the same squares.

Combination (montage) of images - the compared image is brought to the same size, then they are cut along the medial line of the face and the right half of one image is combined with the left half of the other.

Overlay - on the screen (TV, projector), images are combined and superimposed in various conditions lighting.

2. Measuring method - angular values ​​are measured between the anatomical points of the compared faces.

3. Graphic method- on the compared images, the most characteristic features of the same name are determined, which are then connected by straight lines, forming triangles, rhombuses, trapeziums and other geometric shapes, which should be similar (equal) in the compared images.

Identification of a person by skull and intravital photograph produced using method photo applications- the image of the skull is imprinted in the photograph of the wanted person.

Questions to prepare for the current control on the topic

• What is forensic gabitoscopy.
• Who are the subjects of application of data on appearance.
• How is a person's appearance determined?
• How are the signs of a person's appearance classified?
• Verbal portrait and rules for its compilation.
• Portrait examination.
• Rules for drawing up a subjective portrait.

Today you will learn how to identify a criminal by appearance. Murderers, scum, dregs of society, rotten rot. Or " Dark side personalities with pictures". We read a unique article and take a fresh look at the people who surround us. So, the physiognomy of criminals:

Physiognomy of the killer- thick lips, big nose, square chin, high cheekbones.
Physiognomy of a rapist- eyes bulging, lipped, flattened nose.

This is not something we came up with, this is a discovery of the 19th century - criminals are born, not made. Neither upbringing nor environment makes a bastard a bastard. The genes are to blame, because it is they who give out the appearance of the future bandit.

Cesare Lombroso identified four types of criminals: the murderer, the thief, the rapist and the crook. The theory of the division into people and scum belongs to Cesare Lombroso, an Italian who lived in the 19th century, who worked as a psychiatrist in the prisons of Austria-Hungary. He had seen enough in prison for the dregs of society - he noticed a similarity.

In principle, it is not difficult to come to such a discovery by going into a handel on the outskirts - "Such disgusting faces have gathered, but how similar!" (The main thing is not to tell them about it). So the pasta man firmly substantiated, by measuring the skulls of hundreds of criminals, that:

Killer or rapist?

A born bastard has an unsymmetrical skull, an elongated or sunken face with a convex forehead. Some parts of the skull are sharply defined. A sloping forehead, or, again, a low forehead with strongly developed superciliary arches, a large jaw. That, damn it, description of half of our government!

Andrey Sakhanenko, 11th grader. Quarreled with parents because of bad grades. He hired a friend to kill his parents, he himself opened the door to the killer. They staged an attack on the apartment. Sakhanenko himself called the police, he is 11 years in prison, the killer is 13 years old. EVERYTHING IS WRITTEN ON THE FACE?!

Alexey Degtyarev, 43 years old, a lawyer from St. Petersburg. 15 facts of its deviation from normal behavior man: he approached small children on the street, lured them into the entrance, saying, "I'm a doctor, I need to feel you." Taking pictures of naked children and fucking them. Received 18 years of strict regime with compulsory treatment by a psychiatrist. That's for sure - one castration is not enough, pedophiles must also be hidden in a madhouse!

After the publication of Lombroso's first articles about innate crime, an epidemic swept Europe - everyone measured who had a larger and more incorrect skull. Lombroso himself offered to bring born criminals to the islands, and even if they kill each other there. However, only the Nazis really listened to him - they lovingly measured the skulls and the shape of the ears before burning the subhuman. They tarnished Lombroso thoroughly.

Cesare Lombroso

A funny sign of a scumbag according to Lombroso's theory is: a look from under the forehead and a low pain threshold. Such a vocational school student in a cap at the dance. Unpleasant appearance is also characteristic. Well, the spitting image of a vocational schooler!

And about female criminals - outwardly they cannot be distinguished from people. A criminal woman is distinguished by insensibility - she cannot cum. No maternal instinct, no pity at all. Who needs this? - Here they bully! Women criminals are much tougher than men from criminal world! By the way, we are.

Pecheneva Julia, 46 years old. Moscow lady. She found women similar to herself in social networks, met, and when she met, she killed, and, according to their documents, sold their apartments.

Pecheneva Julia and her victim.

Lombroso said: "Man is an animal, he cannot be re-educated. Immediately identify the criminal and isolate him forever." Europe was seething - Lombroso had enough supporters and opponents. And in Soviet Russia Lombroso was not loved - you yourself in the photo identify people who are not prone to crime.

Yes, and Lombroso's theory says that a criminal, that a revolutionary is one dick. This is a dick who preaches animal laws among people - dominance at any cost, that is, to achieve their goals by violence.

There is a connection between physique and character - yes, fuck it, and don't argue! Only before they tried to mark the rogue after the crime:

IN ancient egypt thieves had their front teeth knocked out;
- V medieval Europe they cut off his nose for robbery, and his ears for theft;
- Hindus stigmatized: the killer - a headless man, the adulterer - a tattoo in the form of a vagina.
Along the way, thieves' tattoos went from there ...

To date, studies of Lombroso's theory are not conducted openly. And so the state got sick, in terms of controlling its citizens. And then there's sharing if they start - in general, a gloomy idea. But, for us, lovers of physiognomy, this knowledge will be useful - to someone when choosing reliable business partners, to whom - sex partners.

And Lombroso proposed to single out criminals before the crime. What's wrong? The only caveat - in old age, Lombroso came to the division of scum - congenital and incorrigible - 40%, and scum random, correctable 60%. That is, if crime is spinning in your head, you are quite genetically impregnable. But your descendants have every chance to carry the bastard gene.

So you learned how to identify a criminal by appearance. The physiognomy of a criminal, so to speak. We hope that you do not have shades of schizophrenia and do not start sorting through photos of your VKontakte friends and deleting potential killers. Although, it's so fun to learn something new about those whom we have known for so long!

Basic rules for describing appearance using the verbal portrait method:

• the description is carried out sequentially from top to bottom, from general to particular;
• the description is carried out with maximum completeness and comprehensiveness;
• when describing, unified terminology is used (for example, elements of appearance are described in form using names geometric shapes);
• a person's appearance (and its individual elements) are characterized according to various criteria, such as shape, size, position, quantity, color, etc.;
• the human head as the most noticeable and memorable element is described in full face and profile.

Order of feature description

I. Gender: male, female

II. Age

It is determined according to documents or approximately “in appearance”, indicating the age “in appearance” in the presence of documentary data is necessary in cases where a person seems much younger or older than his years.

III. Nationality (type of person)

It is determined in the absence of documents confirming the nationality of a person, a comparative determination of the type of person is allowed (provided that it is clearly expressed). There are European, Caucasian, Central Asian, Mongolian type of face.

IV. Anatomical features

1. The figure as a whole:

Height is determined by a three-term gradation for men: low (up to 165 cm), medium (up to 175 cm), high (175-190 cm)

For women, these sizes are respectively reduced by 5-10 cm. In the presence of anthropological means, absolute data in centimeters are indicated. Features: very low (up to 155 cm), very high (over 190 cm)

The physique is determined by the development of the musculoskeletal system and the degree of body fat. There are people with a weak, medium, stocky and athletic physique. According to fatness, a person is characterized as thin, normal build, full and obese.

2. Head as a whole:

a) size - small, medium, large;

b) position - vertical, inclined forward, to the right or left shoulder, thrown back.

3. Skull:

low, medium, high, round, pear-shaped, domed.

4. Nape:

oblique, protruding, vertical.

5. Hair:

a) by density - thick, medium, rare;

b) by length - short, medium, long;

c) shape - straight, wavy, curly, curly;

d) color - light blond, blond blond, dark blond, red, gray, gray, black;

e) hairline - arched, straight, angular, M-shaped, winding, with temporal bald patches;

e) the nature of the hairstyle - a haircut is low, high, combed back, left, right, on the forehead, parting, in the middle, left, right, braided, bun;

g) bald patches: frontal, parietal, crown, longitudinal, general baldness, temporal bald patches, bald patches.

6. Face as a whole:

a) proportions - narrow, medium, wide;

b) in shape - oval, round, rectangular, square, triangular, trapezoidal;

c) contour in profile - straight, convex, concave;

d) in fullness - thin, thin, cf. completeness, complete;

e) facial skin - smooth, porous, flabby, wrinkled, clean, acne-prone, pimply, pockmarked, freckled, streaked, dry, oily white, swarthy, red, pink, yellow, pale, bluish, bloody, vascular;

f) wrinkles - frontal, interbrow, buccal, nasolabial, oral, tragus, etc. (named according to their location).

7. Forehead:

a) size in width - narrow, medium, wide;

b) in height - low, medium, high;

c) forehead contour - straight, convex, wavy.

8. Eyebrows:

a) by size - short, medium, long, narrow, medium, wide;

b) by density - thick, rare;

c) in shape - straight, arched, winding;

d) by position - low, high, horizontal, beveled inward, beveled outward, brought together, moved apart.

9. Eyes:

a) by size - small, medium, large;

b) in shape - slit-like, oval, round, triangular;

c) by color - dark brown, light brown, greenish, blue, light blue, dark blue, gray, yellow, black;

d) by position - horizontal, oblique, oblique

e) relative position - close, apart.

10. Nos.:

a) in size - high, medium, low, narrow, wide;

b) the degree of prominence - small, medium, large;

d) the size of the back of the nose - narrow, medium, wide;

e) back contour - straight, concave, convex, straight-wavy, concave-wavy, convex-wavy;

f) tip width - narrow, medium, wide;

g) the tip of the nose in shape - sharp, rounded, blunt;

h) the base of the nose in position - raised, horizontal, lowered.

11. Mouth:

a) by size - small, medium, large;

b) the contour of the line of closing of the lips - straight, wavy, broken;

c) the positions of the corners of the mouth - lowered, horizontal, raised.

12. Lips:

a) by thickness - thin, medium, thick;

b) by protrusion - upper, lower, general and elongation;

c) color (tone) - bright, pale.

13. Teeth:

a) by size - small, medium, large;

b) by position - rare, frequent (distance between teeth);

c) according to the shape of the outer surface - flat, convex.

14. Chin:

a) in height - low, medium, high;

b) in width - narrow, medium, wide;

c) in shape - rectangular, triangular, rounded;

d) by position - oblique, protruding, vertical.

15. Ear:

a) by size - small, medium, large;

b) in shape - round, oval, rectangular, triangular;

c) by position - vertical, beveled;

d) protrusion - general, lower, upper, general fit;

e) the size of the curl - short, medium, long, narrow, medium, wide;

e) antihelix in shape - flat, convex;

g) tragus in size - small, medium, large, along the contour - straight, convex, concave.

16. Neck:

short, medium, long, thick, thin.

17. Shoulders:

narrow, medium, wide, horizontal, raised, lowered.

18. Back:

narrow, medium, wide, concave, straight, convex.

19. Chest:

narrow, medium, sunken, protruding.

20. Hands:

short, medium, thin, medium, thick.

21. Legs:

a) by size - short, medium, long, thin, thick; b) in shape - straight, O-shaped, X-shaped.

V. Functional features

1. Posture those. the habit of man to hold his body. And so the posture happens: straight, hunched, free, proud, drooping.

2. Gait: fast, slow, light, heavy, bouncing, shuffling, sea (waddle).

3. Gesticulation: hand movement to enhance the expressiveness of speech. She is energetic, lethargic, with one or two hands.

4. Facial expression and gaze are characteristic movements of the muscles of the face.

When talking, some faces may be motionless, while others, while talking, wrinkle their foreheads, frown, shift or raise their eyebrows, squint their eyes, wink, bite their lips, twist their mouths, etc. Look: can be direct, open, calm, mocking, dull, gloomy, tired, strict, cheerful, surprised, contemptuous, attentive, suspicious, running, sideways, frowningly, to the side.

6. Speech: slow, smooth, viscous, calm, excited, jerky, distinct, persistent, cultured, illiterate. Some people use professional words, jargons, habitual phrases, proverbs when speaking. The presence of a local dialect, accent, speech defects (lisping, nasal, burr, stuttering) are noted.

7. Manners and habits people are very diverse. They can be rubbing hands, cracking the knuckles of the fingers, stroking the mustache, beard, hair on the head, stepping from foot to foot, etc. A characteristic habit is to keep the hands at the seams, in the pockets or over the side of the jacket, to smoke a certain kind of tobacco, and so on.

The group of habits should also include various skills - the ability to play neither musical instruments, sing dance.

Examples of describing a person using the verbal portrait method

O R I E N T I R O V K A

on the wanted list of Sazonov V.A., born in 1938

On suspicion of committing serious crime ATS Central region mountains Kaliningrad wanted Mr. Sazonov Vladimir Aleksandrovich, born in 1938, previously repeatedly convicted. His features: he looks 50-55 years old, European-type face, tall, strong build, short dark hair, rectangular head, low eyebrows, large protruding brow ridges, temporal bald patches, deep frontal, superciliary and nasolabial wrinkles, slit-like eyes, obliquely external, protruding chin. He was wearing a dark men's jacket with small stripes, a dark shirt with light stripes.

When detained, please inform the initiator by phone. 21-85-24, 21-99-79. Initiator: Petrov.

O R I E N T I R O V K A

on the wanted list of Roldugin V.N., born in 1959

On suspicion of committing a serious crime, the Department of Internal Affairs of the Central District of the mountains. Kaliningrad wanted Mr. Roldugin Vladimir Nikolayevich, born in 1959, previously repeatedly convicted. His features: 20-22 years old, European-type face, medium build, thin, short light hair, oval head, low long eyebrows, wears a dark mustache of medium length, protruding ears, sloping chin, sharp Adam's apple on the neck. He was wearing a light checkered shirt, a dark-colored sweater with a turn-down collar, a narrow white stripe runs along the edge of the collar, a white zipper was sewn into the sweater.

"verbal portrait".

Verbal portrait - this is a forensic method of describing a person's appearance using common terms, carried out according to a certain system for the purpose of criminal registration, search and identification of living persons and corpses.

Principles of the verbal portrait method:

1. 1. consistency (determines the sequence (order) of the description);
   2. completeness (provides a detailed description).

Method for describing the signs of a person's appearance

1. Signs are fixed that characterize:

• • general physical elements of appearance: gender, age, nationality (anthropological type), height, physique;
  • anatomical features of individual areas of the body and elements;
  • functional features of related items.

2. The description of the signs of appearance is carried out according to the scheme "from general to particular" and "top - down":

• • overall figure,
  • head as a whole
  • face in general
  • separate elements of the face,
  • neck, shoulders, back, chest,
  • hands-legs.

3. Each of the anatomical elements is characterized by

• • form,
  • size,
  • position,
  • some are in color.

3.1. When describing the form, the name of geometric shapes (round, oval, rectangular, triangular, etc.) or geometric lines (straight, convex, winding, etc.) is used.

3.2. The description of the dimensions of the elements is given not in absolute terms, but in relation to other elements of the exterior. At the same time, its height, length, width, quantity, etc. are characterized. The gradation of values ​​is most often three-term: large, medium, small. Five-membered can also be used, with the addition of: very large and very small. With a seven-term gradation, they add: "above average", "below average". If there are doubts about the size characteristic, then it is indicated in two values: "medium-small", "large-medium".

3.3. The position of the element is determined relative to the vertical and horizontal planes of the body (horizontal, inclined, beveled inward, etc.), as well as by mutual position (fused, separate).

3.4. Characterized by color (black, dark blond, light blond, blond, red, gray); eyes (black, brown, gray, etc.) and sometimes skin color (very red, yellow, bluish-red nose, color birthmark and so on.).

4. For the description, uniform terms accepted in the verbal portrait should be used. excluding discrepancy and ambiguity.

5. Anatomical features are described in relation to two angles:

• • front view (full face);
  • side view (profile).

In this case, the head should be in a "normal" position, when a horizontal line passes through the bridge of the nose, outer corner eyes and the upper third of the auricle (the so-called French anthropological horizontal). The muscles of the face should be in a calm state (without a smile, facial expressions, grimace), there should be no cosmetics, hair removed from the forehead and ears, glasses and a headdress removed (their description is given in the accompanying signs).

Scheme for describing external features using the "verbal portrait" method

Elements and features of the face in front: 1a. Anthropometric points of the face: A - upper frontal, B - glabella, C - upper nasal, D - pupillary, D - nasal, E - chin, G - mandibular. 1 - forehead height, 2 - forehead width, 3 - eyebrow position line, 4 - palpebral fissure position line, 5 - pupillary line, 6 - palpebral fissure length, 7 - nasal bridge width, 8 - nose height (nasal part of the face), 9 - width of the nose, 10 - height of the upper lip, 11 - length of the oral fissure, 12 - height of the chin, 13 - protrusion of the auricle, 14 - height of the auricle, 15 - axial (medial) line. 1 - hairline, 2 - frontal tubercles, 3 - superciliary arches, 4 - eyebrow heads, 5 - eyebrow contours, b - eyebrow tails, 7 - internal corners eye, 8 - outer corners of the eyes, 9 - contours of the folds of the upper eyelids, 10 - nasolabial filter, 11 - contour of the border of the upper lip, 12 - contour of the border of the lower lip, 13 - contour of the chin, 14 - contour of the curl, 15 - contour of the antihelix, 16 - outline of the tragus.

Description of anatomical features

Floor: male, female.

Age. Installed:

1. 1. according to documents, if they are not in doubt;
   2. "in appearance" (indicating this circumstance and within certain limits: in appearance 25-30 years old, in appearance 50-60 years old, etc.);
   3. according to medical or forensic medical examination.

Nationality (type of person). In the absence of documents and other reliable information confirming the nationality of a person, it is permissible to determine the type of person. This can be an anthropological type of appearance characteristic of a particular race (Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, etc.) or a comparative definition of the type in relation to our country: European type, Caucasian, Central Asian, Mongolian, etc.

Overall figure

Growth is most often determined by a three-term gradation:

• low (for men up to 160 cm),
• medium (for men from 160 cm to 170 cm),
• high (for men over 170 cm).

Permissible characteristic: very low, very high. If anthropometric measurements are available or can be obtained ( medical card etc.), then the growth is indicated in absolute terms.

For women, these figures apply for each category 10 cm less.

The physique is characterized depending on the development of the musculoskeletal system and the degree of body fat. There are physique: weak, very weak, medium, stocky, athletic.

According to the degree of fatness, a person can be characterized by the following features: thin, thin, average fatness, full (features - very thin, very full - "fat").

Description of functional features

Posture - the usual position of the torso and head (the usual posture of a person). At the same time, the position of the head relative to the body is noted (deflected to the right or left shoulder, tilted forward, thrown back), as well as the position of the body in relation to the vertical (back is straight, stooped, hunched).

Gait - a set of habitual automatic movements when walking as a manifestation of a certain dynamic stereotype formed in a person. This circumstance determines the constancy of such elements of gait as step length (left, right), step width, step angle, turn angle, and feet. Therefore, when describing the gait, the step size (long, short) is noted. Step width (narrow or short spacing of the feet, setting of the feet when walking (toes out, toes in, parallel), pace (fast, slow), appearance (gait is soft, heavy, staggering, waggling, bouncing, mincing, wobbling). also lameness, dragging of the leg, position of the arms when walking (waving arms, hands in pockets, laid behind) Gait may change under the influence of diseases of the legs, nervous system suffered head injuries.

Gesticulation is a complex of movements of the hands, shoulders (sometimes the head) of a person with which he accompanies his speech in order to give it more expressiveness. When describing gestures, its tempo (fast, slow), expressiveness (lively, energetic, sluggish), the nature of gestures and their content (indicative, pictorial, etc.) are recorded.

Mimicry is the movement of muscles and facial elements that change its expression depending on emotional state person or desire. It can be very developed or unimpressive. Usually, the most pronounced and familiar facial expressions are noted (raising the eyebrows, biting the lips, winks, etc.).

Speech - in relation to it, they characterize both data related to speech itself and data speech mechanism. In the first case, the languages ​​spoken by a person are noted, and which of them is native to him, dialect or adverb, accent, pronunciation features, construction of phrases, use slang words, clogged speech ("here", "you understand", etc.).

In a relationship speech mechanism note the pace (slow, fast), character (speech is calm, excited), features of speech (burr, lisp, nasal, etc.). The voice is characterized by timbre (bass, baritone, tenor, alto, treble), strength (weak, medium, strong) and purity (clear, hoarse, deaf, hoarse).

Manners (habits) of behavior are formed in the process of human life and are expressed in the monotonous (usually automatic, uncontrolled) performance of certain actions (rubbing the palms, stroking the head, mustache, stepping from foot to foot, lighting a cigarette, greeting, etc.).

Description of related elements and their features

This description refers to clothing, footwear, headgear and items that. usually a person has with him (glasses, a ring, chains, a pendant, etc.) With regard to clothing, its name is noted (jacket, raincoat, jacket, etc.), type (civilian, sports, military, uniform, etc.). etc.), style and cut (single-breasted jacket, raglan coat, earflap hat, etc.), color, pattern, material, clothing condition, performance characteristics. Other related items are described in a similar way.