Questioned Documents

Question 1

What is the process of using infrared and ultraviolet light to analyze inks for consistency or changes in response to light exposure, particularly on commonly forged documents such as passports?

Answer 1

Video spectral comparison

Question 2

What is the analysis technique used for inks in which a solvent separates the ink components as they they migrate up a plate?

Answer 2

Thin layer chromatography

Question 3

A form of fraudulent writing is

Answer 3

disguised writing

Question 4

Using this technique, an indented writing sample can be visualized and photographed

Answer 4

oblique lighting

Question 5

If a forger attempts pays less attention to speed of the signature than to the letter forms what characteristic will suffer?

Answer 5

line quality

Question 6

What is the name for marks left on photocopies caused from foreign material on or inside the operating parts of a copy machine?

Answer 6

trash marks

Question 7

What type of forgery is where an individual does not attempt to copy the victim’s signature or writing?

Answer 7

normal hand forgeries

Question 8

Key elements to observe and document for a vehicular accident include all but ?

Answer 8

Time of Day

Question 9

Which of the following is an example of irreversible work during an automobile accident?

Answer 9

skidding

Question 10

The two most important laws used in vehicular accident analysis

Answer 10

Conservation of Energy

Conservation of Momentum

Question 11

Dynamic loads

Answer 11

loads on a building that change during a relatively short period of time

Question 12

Dead loads

Answer 12

loads that never seem to change in a building

Question 13

Live loads

Answer 13

loads on a building that change slowly while it’s in used

Question 14

Static Load

Answer 14

the basic weight of the building itself and its contents

Question 15

Receipt signatures

Answer 15

hastily written and have a lot of variation

Question 16

_______ tends to be more fluid than __________

Answer 16

distorted handwriting, disguised handwriting

Question 17

Disguise is most often found in ______

Answer 17

dictated handwriting

Question 18

Generally in good line quality, _________

Answer 18

curves run smoothly, there are straight lines, and there is no retouching or patching

Question 19

Video spectral comparator

Answer 19

allows for the nondestructive examination of documents and inks under various infrared, ultraviolet, and other lighting conditions

Question 20

Which of the following QDE tasks is the most subjective?

Answer 20

Is the document written by the claimed author?

Question 21

All of the following are typically used to identify the printer/creator of a document except

Answer 21

microprinting

Question 22

Which form of machine markings would generally be easiest to individualize to a particular machine?

Answer 22

An electric impact typewriter

Question 23

Trash marks

Answer 23

Unintentional marks on printed papers as the result of dust or debris

Question 24

When the dandy roll presses a pattern into wet pulp, a ____________ is formed

Answer 24

watermark

Question 25

An ESDA film lift could show which of the following pieces of information?

Answer 25

It could show that a suspect document came from a particular pad or notebook

It could be used for handwriting identification

Question 26

Why it thin layer chromatography generally a poor choice for analysis of pigment based inks and toners?

Answer 26

The pigments do not dissolve easily into solvents

Question 27

Indented Writing

Answer 27

writing from the surface underneath the surface in direct contact with the writing apparatus

Question 28

Toner

Answer 28

Carbon powder and polymer beads