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ANGEL IBARRA

Step 1: Go to A Simplified Guide To Forensic Document Examination

Step 2: Answer these questions as you read
Principles of Forensic Document Exploration
1. Forensic document examiners often deal with...
- questions of document authenticity.
2. What types of things are forensic examiners looking for?
- They look for handwriting.
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What are the three main principles of comparing handwriting?

Sufficient amount of writing
Natural variation
Skill level

Why and when is forensic document examination used?

- It is used when they have to examine writing and to resolve.
4. What are some reasons investigators will want to examine the authenticity of
documents?
- They will want to examine the documents to resolve
How Its Done - read Evidence That May Be Examined and Collecting the Known and
Unknown
5. How do analysts obtain known specimens? What is a known specimen?
- Analysts obtain them from any number of known sources as an ink manufacturer
or machine
Read How and Where the Analysis Is Performed and focus on section Examination of
handwriting
6. What are some characteristics of handwriting that are taken into consideration when
comparing writing samples?
- Some characters that are compared are word and spacing, slant or slope, speed
writing
7. Are two signatures from the same person usually identical?
- No
8. What do you need to have in order to conduct a comparison?
- Know the writing samples
FAQs
9. Briefly describe some limitations of document analysis.
- Non- original evidence
- Insufficient quantity of material