White Collar Crime Research Paper

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Forensic Document examiners are most frequently asked to resolve questions of authorship. Is the signature on the mortgage loan Ledge? Who wrote the anonymous note? Did the deceased sign the will? By comparing documents found at a crime scene to a suspect's known writing samples, the forensic document examiner can help confirm who wrote the note and include or exclude suspects from the investing.
The Crime
Now that people are graphic mature with their writing other people will want to learn it as well. These people work just as hard as you do to have perfected your writing, as you do to make it your own. The name for a person who tries to create a false written document or revolutionize a genuine one, with the intent to con someone is called a Con Artist and the act/crime is fraud. Also Con Artist does not act on physical work like signatures, typing, etc, but nonphysical as well. White collar Crime is one way a Con Artist is nonphysical,
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The examiner must be able to mindfully see the differences between "Class characteristics (are those which are common to a group such as a particular writing system, family grouping, foreign language system, or professional group)" and "Individual characteristics (are those which are personal or peculiar letters or letter combinations, which, taken together, would not occur in the writing of another person)”. First the examiner have to study a valid samples of the hand writing (the more the better) of the victim/individual concerned to the evidence that was fraudulent. The examiner focus on angularity, slope, speed, pressure, letter and word spacing, this is called Natural variations. Things like margins, crowding, and insertion are major fora points as well. Longer or many samples (Exemplar) are easier for examinations because the Con Artists will be more vulnerable to make