Moszczynski Jaroslaw
University of Warmia and Mazury, Warszawska Street 98, 10-702 Olsztyn, Poland.
Forensic Sci Int. 2019 Jan;294:e4-e10. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.10.030. Epub 2018 Nov 11.
The scientific research conducted so far as well as rich practical expert experience point to the fact that handwriting is individual to each person. On the other hand, there are quite infrequent cases of developing two or more different styles of writing by the same person, during learning-to-write process. These various styles of handwriting are used interchangeably, either spontaneously or intentionally; the effect being as if different persons can be attributed to authorship. The Author proposes to refer to this barely known phenomenon as "the multi-individuality of handwriting". The identification of writer of this type of handwriting is possible, however may pose serious problems. Variations of handwriting of the same person may lead forensic examiners to faulty expert opinion, if a known sample does not reflect the writing style of a questioned entry. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of study of multi-individual handwriting.
迄今为止进行的科学研究以及丰富的实践专家经验都表明,笔迹因人而异。另一方面,在学习书写过程中,同一个人形成两种或更多不同书写风格的情况相当罕见。这些不同的书写风格可以自发或有意地交替使用;其效果就好像可以将不同的人归为作者。作者建议将这种鲜为人知的现象称为“笔迹的多重个体性”。识别这种笔迹的书写者是可能的,然而可能会带来严重问题。如果已知样本不能反映有疑问条目的书写风格,同一个人的笔迹变化可能会导致法医专家给出错误的鉴定意见。本文的目的是展示对多重个体笔迹的研究结果。