9-10 JUNE 2022, 20TH WROCLAW SYMPOSIUM ON QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINATION

  • 10.
  • 06.
  • 2022

On June 9-10, 2022, Wroclaw hosted 20th symposium on questioned document examination. The symposium was conducted from the studio. The on-line transmission took the form of a conference. The participants of the symposium had access to streams with language versions: Polish, English.

Symposium was attended by experts on document examination from Austria, Australia, Brasil, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, India, Lithuania, Latvia, Lebanon, Malta, Netherlands, Slovakia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, USA and many Polish guests representing major universities and non-academic centers, such as police forensic laboratories, Institute of Forensic Research in Kraków as well as independent experts. They were joined by representatives of areas related to forensic science – especially penal procedure, criminology, psychology, psychiatry, forensic physics, forensic chemistry.

The main subjects of the Symposium were:

– contemporary trends in questioned document examination;

– contemporary trends in handwriting examination;

– handwriting examination versus graphology;

– examination of initials and graphometry;

– pathology in handwriting examination;

– examination of signatures;

– examination of biometric electronic signatures;

– specific character of testament examination;

– issues of questioned document examination (physical and chemical analysis of ink, toner, paper, indented writing, cross strokes);

– age of documents (global problems with destructive and non-destructive methods);

– innovative solutions of security printing;

– document security features and verification;

– control of qualifications of an expert witness;

– international cooperation of questioned document research.

 

For detailed information regarding the conference, see the website:

http://www.wsbp.uni.wroc.pl