FSC239Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Digitizing, Digital Image Processing, Hypodermic Needle
Document Summary
Examines handwriting and typescript to determine source or authenticity. Requires knowledge of microscopy, photography, and even chromatography. Alterations of documents overwriting, erasures, crossing out must be recognized and characterized as efforts to obscure the original context. Uses all skills to reconstruct original content. Many factors make up the total character of a person"s writing which may lead to marked resemblances. Collection of handwriting exemplars exemplar an authentic sample used for comparison reasons: an adequate amount is critical for determining the outcome of a comparison. Must be furnished similar to the style of the questioned documents: styles and habits may be somewhat altered if a person switches to a different medium, ruled/unruled paper may also effect handwriting. Writing of diction also best represents the suspect"s subconscious style and characteristics dictated text should contain the same content of the questioned document or contain many similar words dictation should occur 3 times.
