Forensic Document Examination: Principles and Practice

✍ Scribed by Katherine Mainolfi Koppenhaver CDE (auth.)

Publisher: Humana Press
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 308
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Forensic Document Examination introduces the reader to the basic principles of handwriting and the factors that affect their development. The book discusses the basic concept of the characteristics of writing that are compared when making an identification or elimination of a writer. In addition, readers will be able to recognize the signs of forgery and disguise and to distinguish between simulation and disguise.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Evolution of the Written Word....Pages 1-6
Principles of Handwriting....Pages 7-25
Factors That Cause Changes in Handwriting....Pages 27-36
Handprinting and Numerals....Pages 37-46
History of Forgery....Pages 47-54
Forgery....Pages 55-60
Other Types of Fraud....Pages 61-67
Equipping a Laboratory....Pages 69-74
Care and Handling of Documents....Pages 75-82
Standards of Comparison....Pages 83-89
Systematic Examinations of Handwriting....Pages 91-95
Master Pattern....Pages 97-111
Detecting Fraudulent Documents....Pages 113-131
Weighing the Evidence....Pages 133-137
Preparing Reports....Pages 139-142
Alterations of Documents....Pages 143-155
Disguised Writing....Pages 157-166
Disguise Versus Simulation....Pages 167-172
Check and Credit Card Fraud....Pages 173-184
Paper....Pages 185-194
Writing Instruments....Pages 195-201
Seals, Stamps, and Paper....Pages 203-206
Typewriters and Printers....Pages 207-219
Duplicating Methods....Pages 221-227
Desktop Publishing....Pages 229-232
The Discovery Process....Pages 233-237
The Litigation Process....Pages 239-243
Demonstrative Evidence....Pages 245-251
Court Cases....Pages 253-255
Back Matter....Pages 257-315

✦ Subjects

Forensic Medicine; Law, general

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