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- Title
Stature Estimation from Hand Length and Foot Length in Adults - a Regional Study in Chennai, Tamilnadu.
- Authors
Ragavan, Srinivasa; Chandran, Magendran
- Abstract
Identification of dead body and proof of corpus delicti is essential and integral part of any criminal and civil justice delivery system throughout the world. The main part of corpus delicti (i.e. the body of the offence; the essence of crime) is the establishment of the identity of the dead body. The stature prediction occupies relatively a central position both in the anthropological research and in the identification. Various studies have been conducted in the estimation of stature from long bones to bony fragments. In the present study an attempt has been made, which is first of its kind in Tamilnadu, to estimate the stature of an adult individual of either sex not only from hand length, foot length but also from a variety of combination of both hand and foot lengths of either sides. . In this regional study multiplication factors also have been derived to estimate stature from hand length and foot length for both sexes.
- Subjects
CHENNAI (India); TAMIL Nadu (India); FORENSIC anthropology; HAND measurement; FOOT measurement; ADULTS
- Publication
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 1, p205
- ISSN
0973-9122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5958/0973-9130.2015.00050.X