TY - JOUR
T1 - Hand biometrics - A tool for gender & stature estimation
AU - Rastogi, Prateek
AU - Murali, Reshama
AU - Rastogi, Shilpi
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements:Manipal University & Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore for funding this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Medicolegal Society. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Hand prints are one of the common evidences left at crime scene. A study was conducted on 140 medical students with an aim to establish a correlation of hand biometric measurements like hand length, hand breadth, palm legth, palm bredath, hand index and palm index from hand prints with stature and gender of an individual. Results of the study shows that hand length, palm length, hand breadth and palm breadth shows significant correlation with stature and gender of an individual as well as they show sexual diamorphism. Palm index and hand index neither shows significant correlation nor sexual diamorphism. Present study may be helpful to establish that hand dimensions from hand prints can effectively predict the stature and sexual dimorphism of an individualHence, the use of these parameters has been advocated in the present study.
AB - Hand prints are one of the common evidences left at crime scene. A study was conducted on 140 medical students with an aim to establish a correlation of hand biometric measurements like hand length, hand breadth, palm legth, palm bredath, hand index and palm index from hand prints with stature and gender of an individual. Results of the study shows that hand length, palm length, hand breadth and palm breadth shows significant correlation with stature and gender of an individual as well as they show sexual diamorphism. Palm index and hand index neither shows significant correlation nor sexual diamorphism. Present study may be helpful to establish that hand dimensions from hand prints can effectively predict the stature and sexual dimorphism of an individualHence, the use of these parameters has been advocated in the present study.
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M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85050616627
SN - 0973-9122
VL - 31
SP - 87
EP - 90
JO - Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
JF - Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
IS - 1
ER -
