FEATURES OF CRIMINALISTIC ESTIMATION IN FORENSIC SOIL-SCIENCE EXAMINATION


  • O. O. Khlestkova
Keywords: soil-science examination, generic and specific belongingness, identification of a land plot (accident scene).

Abstract

The paper indicates that a forensic soil-science examination is a multistage comprehensive research, and the evaluation is being carried out after each research phase taking into account the knowledge as in the field ofsoil-science and adjacent sciences (a naturalscience evaluation), and in the field of Criminalistics (criminalistic evaluation). The natural-science evaluation is performedfrom the point of view of classification, taxonomy and other structural units of soil-science, geology, biology and other sciences. The criminalistic evaluation foresees transformation of a natural-science evaluation results in accordance with the special knowledge in the field of the criminalistic identification theory. The features of criminalistic evaluation in the identification researches of forensic soil-science examination are considered, they consist in specific properties of objects of a soil-mineral origination: the absence of data on the structure of a genetic profile of soil in overlayings on object-carrier, multicomponentness of soils, possibility of some indicators of soil to be both as patrimonial and group signs depending on the character of the ground where the crime was committed. The patrimonial belongingness of soil objects corresponds to the broadest plots of terrain and is the initial stage at localization (separation) of accident scene plot under identification. The group belongingness unites objects with certain specific conditions of emergence and existence which, mainly, are conditioned by economic activities of a person in the industry, agriculture, construction. Group signs are namely those allow to separate a local plot on a broad territory with a certain complex of properties and indicators. Each expert research of soils needs the creative approach with taking into account all features of identification objects, including suitability of accident scene plot for localization and identification, the identification importance of signs, the presence of enough quantity of ground overlayings and preservation of initial indicators in them, coincidence ofproperties of all components and impurities in compared soils.


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Published
2017-11-29
How to Cite
Khlestkova, O. O. (2017). FEATURES OF CRIMINALISTIC ESTIMATION IN FORENSIC SOIL-SCIENCE EXAMINATION. Theory and Practice of Forensic Science and Criminalistics, 17, 284-289. https://doi.org/10.32353/khrife.2017.35
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FORENSIC EXAMINATION OF MATERIALS, SUBSTANCES AND PRODUCTS: METHODICAL APPROACHE