Zeitschrift für forensische Forschung

Forensic Gait Analysis: The Correlation between Gait Characteristics and Stature of Male and Female for Criminal Profiling

Abstract

Hritik Kumar, Shanu Kumar

Forensic gait pattern analysis is the scientific and systematic evaluation of different gait characteristics involved in gait pattern left at scene of occurrence during crime by criminal, victim, or any other person and it is used as a parameter because of their individualistic nature to eliminate suspect list as it contribute in personal identification of any suspect related to the crime scene, meanwhile helps investigating officer to make a criminal profile. Gait pattern is the way of walking or a manner of movement of lower limbs during locomotion of any person and it constitutes some feature during development of walking pattern like step length, step width, step angle, foot angle, etc. Which is somehow individualistic? And gait pattern is countered as a evidence in number of crime scene robbery, hit and run, homicides, kidnapping, etc. The present study expecting probable correlation between four gait characteristics which is step length, step width, step angle and foot angle of person and stature in both male and female separately. And will be developed as a forensic tool which provide us relevant information like stature, gender of the person and help to generate criminal profile.