Questioned documents

Question 1

Class characteristic handwriting

Answer 1

Based on how children are taught to write

Question 2

Individual characteristic handwriting

Answer 2

Individual perception, dexterity, errors made during the learning process, and the incorporation of specific features of the writing style

Question 3

Natural variation

Answer 3

The usual and normal deviations that occur within repeated specimens of a person’s handwriting

Question 4

Handwriting comparison

Answer 4

Involves comparing the questioned document with a comparable sample from a suspect

Question 5

Comparison sample (Exemplars)

Answer 5

Obtained by collection or request. Original documents compare features such as pen pressure can lead to a positive identification, strong probability, weak probability, or neither eliminate, or no evidence to indicate.

Question 6

Collected specimens

Answer 6

Naturally written, include broad range of natural variation. May be duplicated by samples from the time the questioned document was written. Disadvantages: difficult to prove who wrote it if it was not witnessed.

Question 7

Requested specimens

Answer 7

Advantages: authorship is not in dispute, questioned documents can be reproduced, quality and style of writing can be controlled.
Disadvantages: May have attempts to disguise the handwriting or the writing may not be natural

Question 8

Canada letter

Answer 8

Set letter altered for each collection of information, Includes words and word combinations that must be changed to ensure the suspect writes everything that is in the questioned document

Question 9

8 Principles of disguise

Answer 9

Most disguise are simple.

Question 10

Means, media, materials

Answer 10

Printing and typing from machine can also create question documents

Question 11

Class characteristics Machines

Answer 11

Something unique that occurred during manufacture, use, and misuse

Question 12

Innate characteristics

Answer 12

Common to a group but does not apply to all objects in the group. Photocopies of a document can be examined to determine the make and model of the machine used to produce the copy

Question 13

Altered documents

Answer 13

Torn pieces of paper, foil, plastic can be physically matched to an original

Question 14

Obliteration

Answer 14

Blotting out or smearing over of writing to make the original unreadable