Diplomática e Documentoscopia: aproximações e interfaces entre a Arquivologia e a Criminalística

Abstract

The emergence of writing is closely linked to man's inherent need to record facts. In this way, the documents and their supporting capacity became part of the daily life of civilizations aiming mainly to record commercial and religious transactions and ensure rights. However, as old as writing itself, it is the practices of falsification and tampering that have developed and improved greatly over time. Such practices cast doubt on the evidential value of documents as reliable and authentic records of the information contained therein. In this sense, documentary authenticity is an extremely relevant factor, since it supports the veracity of the information and possible decision-making acts that take the document as its main support. In view of this, in archivology, to ensure that a document is authentic and to attest to its veracity, Diplomatics is used. In the area of Criminalistics, subarea of law, the authenticity of documents is assessed by Documentscopia. Thus, the objective of this work is to delineate a comparative table between different disciplines, Diplomatics and Documentscopy, aiming to identify and highlight the convergent and divergent aspects between the areas as a way to correlate Archivology and Criminalistics. The methodology employed was: exploratory, regarding the objectives; bibliographic and documentary, regarding the procedures; and qualitative, as to the approach. The collected data were systematized and presented in comparative tables. The research concludes by clarifying that the convergent aspects are present in most of the analyzed points, such as applicability, concepts and objectives, and it is possible to establish a correlation between Archivology and Criminalistics.