Forensic expert activity in the system of scientific and technical support of criminal proceedings

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The article presents the results of the analysis and critical assessment of the history of development and the current state of forensic and forensic activities as the most important elements of the system of scientific and technical support of criminal proceedings; their rational and promising organization in the Investigative Committee of Russia is noted; the reasons for their departmental separations, respectively, in the Ministry of Justice of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, characterized by lengthy discussions and the adoption of questionable organizational and legal decisions; a set of principles has been formulated that the specified system should meet, as well as a list of projected organizational and legal measures aimed at its formation and organization of functioning.

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Aleksandr F. Volynsky

Kikot’ Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation; Sukharev Moscow Academy of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation

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Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Lawyer of Russian Federation, Professor of the Department of Criminology, Professor of the Department of Forensic Expertise and Operational Investigative Activitie

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

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