Foreign Forensic Technologies: The Concept of Relevance
https://doi.org/10.30764/1819-2785-2020-4-108-115
Abstract
The article addresses the concept of relevance concerning foreign criminal proceedings, in particular those applying forensic technologies. The author emphasizes that the variety of parties involved in the trial leads to the anticipated pluralism of relevance evaluation. For forensic experts, the relevance assessment is determined by data describing the cognitive object, perceived by the cognizing subject in different object’s reflections.
Foreign criminal systems take great interest in recognizing the importance of the concept of relevance. From examining the crime scene to a court ruling, the understanding of the argumentation process in assessing the relevance of the evidence is a part of the information control procedure that will be used to justify court decisions.
About the Author
I. E. Nikitina
State University of Humanities and Social Studies; The Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation; Korolyov branch of International Law Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nikitina Irina Eduardovna – Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Criminalistics and Criminal Procedure of the State University of Humanities and Social Studies; Head of the Department of Criminal Law disciplines of the Korolyov branch of the International Law Institute; Leading Researcher of the Forensic Research Methodology Department in the system of the Forensic Institutions of the Russian Ministry of Justice, the Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Russian Ministry of Justice
Kolomna 140410
Moscow 109028
Korolyov 141070
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Nikitina I.E. Foreign Forensic Technologies: The Concept of Relevance. Theory and Practice of Forensic Science. 2020;15(4):108-115. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30764/1819-2785-2020-4-108-115
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