Correlation Between the Stature and Hand Print Impressions in Chennai Population

Personal identification plays an important role in medical - legal, and criminal investigations. The stature estimation is used for formulating a biological profile during the process of personal identification because stature is one of the major characteristics for the identification. Especially in mutilated and amputated limbs or body parts found at crime scenes. Sometimes handprints are the only evidence left at the scene; in those cases, anthropometric measurements of the handprints are used to estimate the stature. Hand prints are easily left at the crime scene. The present study aims to focus on the correlation between stature and handprint dimensions in the Chennai population. The stature and handprints were obtained from fifty males and fifty females who lived in Chennai, aged between 18 and 30 years. Following the measurement of stature, seventeen hand parameters were measured on the hand prints. The obtained data were analyzed using (SPSS) statistical package for social science version 29.0, including descriptive statistics, regression analysis, and Pearson correlation coefficients, are used to determine the correlation between the stature and handprint measurement. This analzed data would obtain statistically significant means, and the suggested approach would be used in a crime scene investigation for estimating stature for the identification process.