Journal of Forensic Research

Abstract

Shivani Satish Ramapure*

Handwriting is one of the unique characteristic to represent what is in our minds, to communicate with others. Handwriting shows the true personality including behavior, emotional outlay, self-esteem, anger, imagination, honesty, fears, defenses and many other personality traits, as well as the person’s profession also. According to Profession and work patterns may vary day by day also we study the impact of handwriting in age. The Adult persons and Aged person handwriting is different it vary time to time. It is commonly known as Graphology. Graphology is the scientific method for recognizing, assessing and to understand writer’s personality through the shapes and word patterns, characteristics of the handwriting. Personality can be identified through various handwriting features such as zone, baseline, slant, size, spacing, margin, pressure, diacritics formation, speed, connecting strokes, I dot formation etc. Handwriting analysis has wide application in the various fields such psychology, medical diagnosis, recruitment of staff, career counseling, writer identification, forensics studies, Criminal investigation in some cases like forgery property theft etc. This paper provides an outline of handwriting analysis, features of handwriting, its related personality traits, also we study the few papers related to changes of handwriting in age wise, overview of the handwriting analysis system (HAS) and a literature survey of the existing papers on handwriting analysis. In this review we studied some research articles for further identification, analysis methods for study.