CRIM 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Graphology, Palmistry, Shopping List

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 355
• Professor: Gail Anderson

Document Summary

Any object which contains signs, symbols or marks either visible, partially visible or invisible, which convey a meaning to someone. Document examination includes: handwriting and hand printing comparisons, examination of means, media and materials used to produce a document, documents that have been altered. Training for questioned document: before accepted, b. sc. (hons. ) Chemistry: word blindness and dexterity tests, civilian, two and a half years of understudy (longest in lab) Graphology: graphology is not questioned document, graphology is determining personality from handwriting, similar to reading palms and fortune telling, no science, caution in court. Handwriting and handprinting examinations: majority of job, handwriting is unique if, reasonable amount of writing, executed freely and uently. Natural variation: usual and normal deviations that occur within repeated specimens of a person"s handwriting, e. g. signature - no two ever the same, if signatures identical - fraud (traced, photocopied, etc. )