Forensic Linguistic Analysis on Cases of Dissemination of Knowingly False (Unreliable) Information under the Guise of Credible Messages
https://doi.org/10.30764/1819-2785-2022-2-49-57
Abstract
The article is devoted to a pressing problem – linguistic analysis on a new category of cases in the Russian legislation: dissemination of knowingly false (unreliable) information under the guise of credible messages (Articles 207.1, 207.2, 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Parts 9, 10, 10.1, 10.2 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation).
Based on the expert analysis of these legislative novelties, the author has developed an expert concept of “statement of facts and events” having legal validity. The author also presents the most advisable wordings of questions to a forensic expert, as well as a methodological approach to address them. As examples illustrating the solution of an expert task and implementation of the proposed approach, the author analyses two cases from his expert practice.
About the Author
V. O. Kuznetsov
Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Russian Ministry of Justice
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Law, Candidate of Philology, Head of the Laboratory of Forensics Linguistics
Moscow 109028, Russia
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Kuznetsov V.O. Forensic Linguistic Analysis on Cases of Dissemination of Knowingly False (Unreliable) Information under the Guise of Credible Messages. Theory and Practice of Forensic Science. 2022;17(2):49-57. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30764/1819-2785-2022-2-49-57
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