POSSIBILITIES OF DETERMINING THE APPROXIMATE HEIGHT OF A PERSON BY THE TRACES OF FRAGMENTS OF THE SOLES OF SNEAKERS
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A successful preliminary diagnostic study of shoe sole traces during the crime scene inspection can significantly increase the efficiency of establishing the circumstances of the crime, establish the number of criminals, determine the direction and sequence of their movement, and establish certain physical data. One of the objectives of this study is to determine the approximate height of the person who created the volumetric or surface traces in order to guide external services to search for and detain the suspect and solve the crime on the spot. In the Soviet and Russian scientific literature, methods for establishing the approximate height of a person by shoe sole traces were previously described, in which all its elements were fully displayed. However, in most cases, in expert practice, there are traces of sole fragments, for example, only the outsole or heel parts, by which a forensic expert in most cases finds it difficult to establish the physical data of the criminal. That is why we conducted a number of experiments aimed at establishing a correlation between the dimensional characteristics of the shoe sole parts to its entire length. Based on the results of the experiments, the author's formula for establishing the approximate height of a person by traces of fragments of the sole of sneakers was obtained.

Keywords:
shoe sole, shoe print, human height, sneakers, outsole and heel parts, human foot.
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