Forensic Science and Forensic Expert Activity: a View Through the Prism of Forensic Experts’ Opinions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32353/khrife.1.2023.02Keywords:
forensic examination; forensic expert activity; optimization of forensic expert activity; international cooperation in forensic science field; forensic expert practice; forensic report; forensic expert.Abstract
The primary concerns of this paper are to study the phenomenon of forensic science and determine ways of optimizing forensic expert practice in Ukraine by summarizing opinions of forensic experts. Based on the survey conducted among forensic experts, issues of legal regulation of forensic science have been considered; the need to unify provisions governing conduct of forensic examination is justified; means of carrying out forensic expert activities (methods, methodologies, technologies) have been analyzed. Positions of forensic experts on certain procedural and substantive issues concerning appointment and conduct of forensic examinations have been determined. The role of the forensic expert’s automated workstation and electronic registers in forensic expert practice (the Register of Certified Forensic Experts and the Register of Methodologies of Forensic Examinations) is argued. The author underlines possibilities of improving the quality of forensic examination and outlines modern trends of international cooperation in the field of forensic science. The importance of cooperation between forensic science institutions of Ukraine within the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes is stressed. The Article Purpose is conditoned by the need to outline directions for forensic science development in Ukraine in current conditions and optimize forensic expert activity, as well as to determine ways to improve expert practice by summarizing forensic experts’ opinions. General scientific and special research methods have been used.
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