RELEVANT ISSUES OF STUDYING SIGNATURES MADE BY PEOPLE WITH DELIBERATE CHANGE OF THEIR REGULAR SIGNATURE HANDWRITING FEATURES

Abstract

Signatures, given their specific nature and functional purpose, represent the most common object for the study of handwriting. The expert practice shows that among true signatures, i. e. signatures made by respective signatories, there are often signatures that have been deliberately changed by the signatory to make it look as a fake signature. In order to find a proper solution to problems regarding the given objects, it is necessary to know the ways of changing the signature handwriting by the signatory, understand their peculiarities, have considerable array of comparative material for a long period of time and represented in the form of not only samples of signatures made by persons in question, but the samples of their handwriting as well. The article provides a number of types of changing the features of signature handwriting and provides some examples from practice. Based on the undertaken research the obtained data on the processes of changing the signatures by signatories themselves allow to create an expert methodology to be used in especially challenging signature study tasks.