TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Does facial width-to-height ratio predict male offender aggression?
JO  - Journal of criminal psychology
A1  - Burris, Christopher
A1  - Edwards, Sherilyn
SP  - 280
EP  - 286
VL  - 7
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2009-3829
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JCP-03-2017-0013
ID  - ref1
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