Modern Trends in the Development of Forensic Examination
- Authors: Moiseeva T.F.1
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Affiliations:
- Russian State University of Justice
- Issue: No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 71-81
- Section: Criminal law studies
- Submitted: 26.01.2026
- Accepted: 26.01.2026
- Published: 17.01.2024
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2072-909X/article/view/375915
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.37399/issn2072-909X.2024.1.71-81
- ID: 375915
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Abstract
The purpose of the work is to analyze the current state of forensic examination as a branch of scientific knowledge and significant procedural activity and on its basis, taking into account new scientific achievements, to predict the directions of development of theoretical, procedural and methodological aspects of forensic expert activity. Research methods. The methodological basis of the work is general scientific and special methods of scientific cognition: dialectical method, formal logical method, comparative legal analysis of articles of legislation regulating forensic expert activity, as well as methods of comparison, interpretation of modern methods of expert research. The results of the study. The main trends in the development of forensic expert activity aimed at improving the legal, theoretical and methodological support of forensic examination are identified.
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Tatiana F. Moiseeva
Russian State University of Justice
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Email: moiseevatf@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6414-7990
Doctor of Science (Law), Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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