@article{ref1,
title="Does facial width-to-height ratio predict male offender aggression?",
journal="Journal of criminal psychology",
year="2017",
author="Burris, Christopher and Edwards, Sherilyn",
volume="7",
number="4",
pages="280-286",
abstract="PURPOSE  Based on the previously observed link between greater facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) and interpersonal aggression in men (see Haselhuhn et al., 2015), the purpose of this paper is to test whether fWHR could differentiate among male offenders as a function of the relative aggressiveness of the crime for which they had been convicted.   Design/methodology/approach      fWHR measurements (n=550) were computed based on a large subset of male offenders available on a public domain database. Each offender's index offense and possible confounding variables such as age, ethnicity, and body mass index were also recorded.   Findings      Multiple analyses yielded no evidence of a relationship between male fWHR and the comparative level of violence of their conviction offense.   Originality/value      Establishing an empirical basis for probable parameters of an unknown offender's facial structure could have a considerable practical value for criminal profiling purposes. fWHR - at least as it has been most frequently assessed - does not appear to be a facial parameter that is useful for this purpose, however.   Keywords:     Aggression, Violence, Profiling, Facial structure, Facial width-to-height ratio, Offender sample  Type:     Research paper  Publisher:     Emerald Publishing Limited<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2009-3829",
doi="10.1108/JCP-03-2017-0013",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JCP-03-2017-0013"
}