OCCIPITAL REGION AS A SOURCE OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONTO THE «VERBAL PORTRAIT» OF MEN OF MILITARY AGE

Objective: develop a highly informative system for describing the appearance from the back of the head for men of young (military) age. Materials and methods. The material of the study was photographs of the occipital region of 200 young relatively healthy men (conscripts and contract soldiers, 18-25 years old, 34 nationalities belonging to the Caucasian and Mongoloid races). Methods: survey, description, measurement; descriptive statistics, correlation analysis; analysis, comparison, synthesis, deduction; photographic; “verbal portrait” in the original modification. Results of the study. It was found that when describing the appearance of relatively healthy young men by the method of “verbal portrait” from the back of the head and adjacent areas, 24 stable, unambiguously interpreted (standardized) signs are recognized, each of which can take from 2 to 7 values (a total of 89). The frequency of occurrence of differentiable values of the studied appearance features varies widely (from 0.5 to 94.5%). 32 out of 89 values of 12 out of 24 signs have a high identification significance (if the occurrence is less than 10%). The identification significance of 19 appearance features is statistically significant (p < 0.05) depending on the person's ethno-territorial identity. Taking into account this system-forming factor, the number of feature values with high identification significance increases by 1.5 times, and the number of informative features increases from 12 to 16. The vast majority of the studied appearance features have a weak or medium strength (23) correlation relationship (p < 0.05), which determines the possibility of solving identification problems by integral evaluation of the information content of each of them. Conclusion. The aggregate informativeness developed indicative system appearance allows to uniquely distinguish the described entity from the totality of similar objects with a volume of 100 thousand people or more that is of value to forensic and forensic identification of an unidentified corpse or photograph of the offender from cameras covert surveillance (4 tables, bibliography: 8 refs).

the back of the head, identification, an unidentified corpse, signs of appearance, a verbal portrait