Figure 3 A virtual simulation of a drive by shooting.
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This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with colleagues. Provided for non-commercial research and education use. Not for reproduction, distribution or commercial use. Fig. 2. An image from a forensic animation of a road traffic accident. Fig. 1. An image from a virtual model of a suicide incident. Fig. 4. A photograph and a rendered image from a crime scene. Dunn et al. [23] compared juror behavior in determining liabil- ity in two accident cases. They reported how computer generated, animated graphics had influenced the decision for a plane accident, but that it did not affect their judgements concerning a car acci- dent. Other experiments have shown similar ambiguous results, demonstrating that three-dimensional computer reconstructions The precise effect that this increasing reliance on visual media over the more traditional mechanism of oral presentation is having on members of a jury, witnesses and other viewers in the court is not known. Concerns are beginning to be articulated that the use of Fig. 5. Images from a bullet trajectory reconstruction. Fig. 6. Images from a terrorism reconstruction.