Handwriting Analysis from Individual Profiling to Forensic Questioned Document Examination
Fatima Fatima · 2019
Handwriting Analysis is a scientific study that interprets human behaviour and personality from particularities in a given handwritten sample. Graphology is the scientific name for handwriting study and thus graphologists who study it. It is often mind or brain writing reflected by an individual with different writing features or elements placed on piece of paper. The writing elements considered for analysis are motion, hand pressure, shapes of the different characters and their spatial relationship among them. It is also practised as standard forensic process for the identification of person and authenticity of signature from written documents termed as questioned documents. These questioned documents may involve criminal or civil cases with forgery, fraudulent cheques, indentation, alteration, obliteration and erasures. Grapholgy is a manual process and to avoid cost and fatigue, automated forensic tools have been developed for handwritten documents as well as printed or scanned questioned documents. These forensic tools rely on standard protocols based on scientific methods. The results obtained from forensic Handwriting analysis and questioned document expert testimony are admissible in the court of law.