PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Facial Composite, Eyewitness Testimony, Oklahoma City Bombing

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3CC3
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Systems listed go from oldest to newest. Where a witness works with police artist and describes face of the perpetrator, artist draws image: used as early as 1910, as recently as 1995 oklahoma bombing. Con: little research on accuracy or utility. Only 18 full-time artists in 500 u. s. police departments as of 2004. Developed by california police officer hugh macdonald in 1959. Still widely used (but now in its computer version) Contains set of plastic representations of facial features. Originally consisted of ~600 drawings of facial features on clear acetate sheets. Witness chooses features, and they are overlain to produce a picture of the offender"s face. Developed in uk by inventor jacques penry in 1970. Like identikit, but whereas identikit has drawings on clear plastic of facial features, photofit has photographs of these facial features. Originally consisted of ~560 photos of facial features (including lots of hair!) on thin card.