Degree Name

MA (Master of Arts)

Program

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Date of Award

5-2011

Committee Chair or Co-Chairs

John T. Whitehead, Larry S. Miller

Committee Members

Dennis Hamm

Abstract

Nowadays, one of the issues of concern that brought on by the aging population is legal disputes that have been increasing in number every year. One core problem in these legal disputes involves handwriting identification. There are however not many previous studies in China that have been concentrated on this field. Hence, the study on elderly Chinese subjects' handwriting has an extremely broad potential value for its application for academic usage and practical meaning. This study uses an empirical technique, gathering first hand data and analysing them by employing proper methods. There are 7 handwriting features and characteristics that have been found in the study to represent the key characteristics of the elderly Chinese subjects' handwriting. They are: Pen pressure, occurrence rate of traditional Chinese words, letter size, poor structure, tremor, half-way stop sign, and towing sign at beginning and end of strokes.

Document Type

Thesis - unrestricted

Copyright

Copyright by the authors.

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