Compare and contrast forgery with counterfeiting. Some have thought these were synonymous.
What will be an ideal response?
Forgery is the creation or alteration of documents to give them the appearance of legality and validity with the intention of gaining some fraudulent benefit from doing so. Strictly speaking, forgery is the “false writing” of a document and uttering is the passing of that document to another with knowledge of its falsity and intent to defraud. One can thus commit a forgery without uttering and can utter without committing a forgery.
Counterfeiting, the creation or altering of currency, is a special case of forgery. In most states, forgery and counterfeiting are allied offenses, which is the reason that they appear that way in the UCR. Would-be counterfeiters no longer need the engraver’s fine craftsmanship to produce quality plates. Printing currency with copiers available today has become an amateur’s do-it-yourself enterprise (just feed in a US$20 bill and press the button).
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