Current State and Prospects for Incorporating Specific Psychology Expertise into Multidisciplinary Forensic Examinations
Abstract
Annotation: Current state of science and technology development, as well as challenges posed by war, should be addressed by the expert community in order to ensure an adequate level of expert support to justice. These issues inspire researchers to enhance forensic expert activities, particularly those related to the use of specific expertise in forensic psychology. Multidisciplinary forensic examinations are crucial in this regard. The primary concerns of this paper are to analyse scientific papers, legal regulations, and forensic expert practice and provide, on this basis, a description of the current state and prospects for integrating specific expertise in forensic psychology into multidisciplinary forensic examinations. General, individual, and special methods were applied during the study of questions pertaining to the Article’s purpose. Within the framework of modernizing Ukrainian legislation, which governs forensic expert activity, and against the backdrop of developing various branches of specific expertise, the practice of conducting forensic psychological and other types of multidisciplinary forensic examinations is being supplemented with new categories and methodologies reflecting the essence of the subject matter, tasks, objects, subjects and research methods. That is why this issue is becoming increasingly relevant and must be thoroughly analysed. The issue of integration and differentiation of specific expertise was considered and the following classification of multidisciplinary forensic examinations was proposed: psychological and psychiatric; medical, psychiatric and psychological (sexological and psychological); medical and psychological; psychological and engineering-technical; psychological and handwriting; psychological and linguistic; psycholinguistic and video/sound recording; psychology and art studies; military and psychological. The aforementioned provisions and recommendations are intended for implementation in expert practice, with the aim of boosting the efficiency of forensic expert activity.
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