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Abstract
The crime of forgery is one that is destructive to all security of property and the confidence necessary to be placed in legal documents; it leads to every kind of plunder, and is therefore justly estimated, by the law, the highest order of crimes. Counterfeiting implies an illegal reproduction of a document. It is an attempt to imitate a genuine negotiable instrument or some other document with monetary value, such as currency.
The present work aimed to study the pattern and prevalence of cases of forgery and counterfeiting examined in Alexandria Forgery and Counterfeiting Research Management and the questioned document as regard type, method of detection, and outcome.
The study was retrospective and carried out on records of cases of forgery and counterfeiting examined in Alexandria Forgery and Counterfeiting Research Management during the year 2012.
The study recoded that the total number of was 2295 document; among them 2140 document were alleged forgery crimes and the remaining 155 cases were alleged counterfeiting crimes.
The ages of alleged persons in the study ranged from 25 to 93 years with a mean age of 69.75 ±11.6 years. Males outnumbered females with a sex ratio about 8:1. The highest percentage of alleged persons was in the age group above 65 years (64.6%) and the lowest one was in the age group less than 25years (0.1%).
In the present study; the highest percentage of alleged persons was married (80.3%), single person accounted for 17.7%, and divorced persons accounted for 1.7 %, while only 0.3% of alleged persons were widows.
The current work showed that 41.2% of alleged persons had manual work, 38.6% had official work, while 20.2% had no occupation.