Psychological techniques to describe personal appearance in crime detection

Introduction. The available description of the wanted person appearance will make it possible to shorten the time to find him, therefore, an investigator faces the task to assist an eye-witness to recollect personal features through various methods. Materials, Results and Discussion. When making a subjective portrait at the first stage an investigator studies the person, his psychological peculiarities using different methods: associations according to similarity, in contrast, in comparison with various objects and phenomena. The second stage consists of direct making of a portrait. At the final stage an investigator documents the actions of making a portrait. Conclusions. Usage of psychological peculiarities of a person, verbal and para-verbal information as well as the methods of describing personal appearance will make complex composing of a subjective portrait and crime solution possible.