FNSC2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bopet, Toner, Nondestructive Testing
Document Summary
Outline protocol for collection of known writing samples. Explain the processes involved in handwriting analysis. Detail approaches to latent impression analysis, in particular the use of the electrostatic detection apparatus. A document encompasses meaning and messages / any inscribed materials widely just than papers including metals, wall, cuts, human skin, pencil, blood, lipstick. A forensic document division is specialized in specific documents where there are diff people with diff areas of expertise. Field of document examination can be divided into 2 aspects authorship validation and origin certification. Questioned document is compared to standards (writing examples of known authorship usually are suspects) Connections, dimension ratios, slope, spacing, base line alignment, writing movement, writing pressure and abbreviations. Factors that affect hw characteristics: state of author = mental state, alcohol intoxication, environment conditions= on the knees, on a table. P8 outcomes of comparison: identified (definitive opinion, highly probable, probable, possible, inconclusive, excluded.
