The Identification of Handprinting
James V. P. Conway · The Journal of Criminal Law Criminology and Police Science · 1955
This paper presents a number of considerations pertinent to the scientific identification of individuals via their handprinting.These comments and conclusions are not portrayed as dogmatisms, or necessarily as original thinking on the subject of handprinting identification.They are simply the evaluation of some of the experiences by the writer and his colleagues in evaluating hundreds of handprinting cases passing through the Post Office Department's questioned document laboratories.These cases have of necessity provoked the writer to specialized research into handprinting identification problems.It is hoped that a report of our observations will direct attention to, and stimulate more thought and comment upon, this very important aspect of the scientific examination of questioned documents.Very little has been said and less has been written by practicing examiners of questioned documents specifically concerning the identification of handprinting.Additionally, it must be conceded that a serious student of the available literature