Chapter Introduction
This is the examination of questioned documents with known material for a variety of analyses, such as authenticity, alterations, erasures, and obliterations.
What is document analysis?
This is the making, adapting, falsifying of documents or other objects with the intention of deceiving someone.
What is forgery?
This characteristic deals with letter size.
Ask yourself: Is the ratio of height to width equal?
What is size consistency?
These document examiners use handwriting analysis in solving important cases. Name at least one.
What is Scotland Yard/the F.B.I./the Secret Service?
This is when a financial gain accompanies a forgery.
What is fraudulence?
This is any signature, handwriting, typewriting, or other written mark whose source or authenticity is in dispute or uncertain.
What is a questioned document?
What is an exemplar?
There are 3 different line habits. Name at least one.
What is text on the line/text above the line/text below the line?
This is the year that the U.S. Court of Appeals determined that handwriting analysis qualified as a form of expert testimony.
What is 1999?
There are many ways criminals can alter/acquire checks. Name at least one.
What is ordering someone else's checks from a deposit slip/directly altering a check/intercepting someone's check, altering it, and cashing it/creating forged checks from scratch?
This is a person who scientifically analyzes handwriting.
Who is a document expert?
This is the production of an imitation of currency/works of art/documents/name-brand look-a-likes for the purpose of deception.
What is counterfeiting?
There are 3 different slants. Name at least one.
What is left/right/variable?
In the 1930's, handwriting analysis played an important forensic role during this trial.
What is the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann?
There are many methods that are used to prevent check forgery. Name at least one.
What is printing checks on chemically sensitive paper/using a large font size/using high-resolution borders/printing checks in multiple color patterns/embed fibers that glow under lights/using chemical-wash detection systems?