Handwriting, Forgery, Counterfeiting

Computerized analysis of handwriting samples has the disadvantage of being slower and less objective than analysis by an individual.

• TRUE

• FALSE

A graphologist is also known as an exemplar.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Because handwriting is difficult to disguise and forge, handwriting analysis is a good tool for including or excluding suspects when determining a match between known material and a questioned document.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Initial comparisons of documents are done with:

• the naked eye.

• microscopes.

• magnifying glasses.

• all of the above.

When a material gain, such as money, accompanies a forgery, it is called:

• a monetary gain.

• fraudulence.

• battery.

• deception.

Criminals can alter or acquire checks in many ways, including:

• ordering someone else’s checks from a deposit slip.

• directly altering a check.

• intercepting someone’s check, altering it and cashing it.

• All of these choices.

Pen manufacturers claim the counterfeiting-detecting pen is:

• 50 percent effective.

• 75 percent effective.

• 98 percent effective.

• 100 percent effective.

Counterfeiting-detecting pens are inexpensive special pens and markers containing the element:

• mercurochrome

• iodine

• invisible ink.

• None of these choices.

When documents or other items are copied for the purpose of deception, it is called:

• forgery

• fraud

• counterfeiting

• All of these choices.

The study of graphology is:

• accepted as part of forensic science, and can be used as a possible indicator of the writer’s personality type.

• not necessarily accepted as part of forensic science, but it can be used to determine identity.

• not necessarily accepted as part of forensic science, but it can be used as a possible indicator of the writer’s personality type.

• None of these choices.