Forensics Unit 6: Digital Evidence and Questioned Documents

Questioned documents include:

• petitions and lottery tickets.

• rare books.

• letters and checks.

• all of the above.

Handwriting is an example of...

• class evidence

• individual evidence

• direct evidence

Documents should be immediately placed in a...

• Plastic sheet protector

• paper bag

• evidence collection bag

• a ziploc bag

When police obtain a writing sample from the suspect, the sample is called a(n):

• Sample

• Exemplar

• Screening

• Graphology

A process used by criminals to make, alter, or falsify a person’s signature or a document with the intent to deceive another person is called:

• Forgery
• Counterfeit     
• Distortion
• Fraud

one made without a model of this signature or writing being forged

• blind forgery

• traced forgery

• simulated forgery

How many characteristics of handwriting do experts use when analyzing samples?

• 10

• 11

• 12

• 13

If you know what a signature is supposed to look like when you forge it, which type of forgery is this?

• blind

• simulated

• traced

The production of an imitation of currency, works of art, documents, and name-brand look-alikes for the purpose of deception.

• exemplar

• counterfeiting

• forgery

• fraudulence

The examination of questioned documents with known material for a variety of analyses, such as authenticity, alterations, erasures, & obliterations

• document analysis

• document expert

• questioned document

• forgery