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The American Board of Forensic Document Examiners, Inc. (ABFDE) is a non-profit organization which provides third-party certification of professional forensic document examiners (FDEs) from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America, and other countries if approved by the board of directors. Sponsored by the American ...
The discipline is known by many names including forensic document examination, 'document examination', 'diplomatics', 'handwriting examination', or sometimes 'handwriting analysis', although the latter term is not often used as it may be confused with graphology. Likewise a forensic document examiner (FDE) is not to be confused with a ...
American Board of Forensic Document Examiners; American Polygraph Association; American Psychology–Law Society; The American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors; American Society of Forensic Odontology; American Society of Questioned Document Examiners; Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory; Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners
Forensic document examination or questioned document examination answers questions about a disputed document using a variety of scientific processes and methods. Many examinations involve a comparison of the questioned document, or components of the document, with a set of known standards.
The American Society of Questioned Document Examiners is the world's oldest [1] society dedicated to the forensic science of questioned document examination with 99 members worldwide. [2] The current president is Thomas W. Vastrick. The society publishes the Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners [3] twice a year.
Albert Sherman Osborn (1855-1946) is considered the father of the science of questioned document examination in North America. [1]His seminal book Questioned Documents was first published in 1910 and later heavily revised as a second edition in 1929.
The Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research papers, technical aids, reviews of current practises or procedures, as well as historical articles relating to forensic document examination. [1]
An electrostatic detection device, or EDD, is a specialized piece of equipment commonly used in questioned document examination to reveal indentations or impressions in paper that may otherwise go unnoticed. It is a non-destructive technique (will not damage the evidence in question), allowing further tests to be carried out.