The Search for Landmarks: Identification by Imagen Overlay in the National Justice System

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In the 21 st century the methods of human identification and criminal investigation have had a revolutionary development in the world, which has caused the maximum use of photography, audios and videos, as evidential means. In the countries, the methods of overlaying images in the identification of persons acussed has been one of the most required by the national justice, however, there is no regulatory framework the regulates their legitimate use of this method in the judicial system, nor that it defines profile of the responsible expert or a guide of application of the said method:

"Of the proposals for the application of the method of identification by superimposition for images the European scientific community turns out to be the most objetive, rigorous transparent. In principle, because in countries like the United States forensic sciences are still in a stage of pending governmental investigation due to massive complaints about the indiscriminate use of empirical criteria and even accusations of racial bias described in detail in the report Stregthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward (2009) by the U.S. National Research Council and the report Forensic Science Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientify Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods ( 2016 ) by the Government's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology"

Likewise, this book demonstrates the problems of applying the method and, in addition, the following question is answered: what a basic conditions for anthropological identification through the method of superimposing images?.

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