Modern Possibilities of Appointing and Conducting Forensic Religious Examination
https://doi.org/10.30764/1819-2785-2025-1-86-95
Abstract
The article discusses the possibilities of appointing and conducting a forensic religious examination using the example of detection and investigation of crimes under Article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. It gives the analysis of judicial practice of charging with a criminal offense for such wrongdoing. The expediency of appointing and conducting a forensic religious examination or a complex psychological, linguistic and religious expert examination under investigation of crimes related to insulting the believers’ feelings is substantiated. The authors consider it advisable to contact representatives of confessions (clergymen who have completed an additional professional retraining program in this expert specialty) when appointing a forensic religious examination. In this case, the expert’s belonging to a certain religious group will indicate a high level of his special knowledge both theoretical and practical one. It is shown that the development of forensic religious examination on the basis of state forensic institutions, including involvement of representatives of religious denominations, can become a starting point for the development of scientific and methodological support for forensic religious examination.
About the Authors
I. A. Bakushkin
The Kolomna Diocese
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Bakushkin Ivan Anatolyevich – Chairman of the Department for Missionary Work and Youth Affairs
Kolomna 140400
I. A. Lapina
Belarusian State University
Belarus
Belarus
Lapina Irena Aleksandrovna – Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Criminalistics Department
Minsk 220030
G. G. Omel’yanyuk
The Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science named after Professor A.R. Shlyakhov of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation;
Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU), Moscow 105055
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Omel’yanyuk Georgii Georgievich – Doctor of Law, Professor, Academic Secretary of the Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Russian Ministry of Justice; Professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University; Professor of the Security in the Digital World Department of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Moscow 101000, Moscow 119991, Moscow 105055
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Bakushkin I.A., Lapina I.A., Omel’yanyuk G.G. Modern Possibilities of Appointing and Conducting Forensic Religious Examination. Theory and Practice of Forensic Science. 2025;20(1):86-95. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30764/1819-2785-2025-1-86-95
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