Forensic Human Hair Examination Guidelines

Everything you wanted to know about hair examinations but never thought you would have to ask.

Process to Create

• To provide a standardized methodology for the hair examination process.
• Drafts offered to community for comment
• Comments reviewed by the hair subgroup and  incorporated or denied. All changes presented to the full SWG for their review.
• Final draft voted on by full SWG - If approved, submitted to ASTM for incorporation
• Enforcement - Voluntary

SWGMAT on Human Hair Atlas

The Atlas of Human Hair Characteristics is a collection of illustrations and photomicrographs designed to supplement the Human Hair characteristic section of the Forensic Human Hair Examination Guideline by Scientific Working Group on Materials Analysis (SWGMAT). The Atlas is a graphic demonstration of the hair characteristics terminology in this section of the Guideline.

Past and present members of SWGMAT along with other members of the forensic science committee have contributed photographs to the  Atlas. New photographs will be added to or substituted for existing photographs as they are submitted for inclusion into the Atlas. http://swgmat.org/subsite_hair.htm
 

1. Richard Bisbing
   McCrone Asscociates Inc.

2. Ricci Cooksey
   CA Dept. of Justice

3. Peter DeForest
   John Jay College

4. Amy Michaud
   ATFE

5. Larry Peterson
   USACIL

6. Geoff Roe
   Forensic Access, Ltd.

7. Steve Shaw
   FBI Laboratory

8. Silvana Tridico
   Australian Federal Police

9. Bonnie Yates
   U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services

 

• Forensic Human Hair Examination Guidelines

• Forensic Human Hair Examination Training Program

• Forensic Hair Comparison: Background Information for Interpretation