An insight into forensic document examiner expertise for discriminating between forged and disguised signatures

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1154-1159

  Dyer, Adrian G ^a,c   Found, Bryan ^a,b   Rogers, Doug ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Victoria Police Forensic Services Department   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition; Decision making; Document examination; Eye movement; Forensic science; Handwriting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DOCUMENT EXAMINATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; FORGERY; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRIME; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DOCUMENTATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SOFTWARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50449083350     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00794.x     Document Type: Article

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