Types of handwriting examinations. The range of objects of a research within handwriting examination is very wide.

Types of handwriting examinations

The range of objects of a research within handwriting examination is very wide. Various documents – agreements, wills, powers of attorney, receipts, their copies, digital analogs can be exposed to handwriting examination. Nevertheless, it is not recommended to use photocopies of documents because of impossibility to define whether technical means for counterfeit were used. Depending on the volume and document type handwriting examination is subdivided on:

• examination of records of considerable volume;
• examination of short manuscript records;
• examination of digital records;
• examination of signatures.

Problems of handwriting examination

The main objective of handwriting examination is identification of the personality who executed record or the signature. Except identification researches, in handwriting examination are applied also diagnostic which set:

• conditions of accomplishment of signatures or records;
• the fact of accomplishment of signatures or records with imitation;
• the fact of accomplishment of signatures or records deliberate the changed handwriting;
• sex of the contractor of records;
• approximate age of the contractor.

Materials for conducting handwriting examination

Handwriting examination represents labor-intensive and long process which requires serious special knowledge and practical experience. Individual approach should be applied to each case. An opportunity to draw a competent conclusion depends on the amount of the studied text, signs of handwriting in the text, their identification importance. Success of handwriting examination depends both on extent of professional training of the expert, and on that, how correctly and materials for carrying out a research are picked fully up.

For production of handwriting examination available the expert it is necessary to make the following materials.

• The studied document with controversial signatures or records. If the original is absent, then it is necessary to provide the copy of proper quality.
• Examples of handwriting or the signature of the checked person. Samples are subdivided into free - executed out of connection with the investigated event, conditional and free - executed in connection with legal investigation, but not especially for handwriting examination and also experimental - the researches executed especially for carrying out.