<jats:p>The expert witness report plays a crucial part in any type of forensic investigation; forensic engineering and land surveying are no exception. This article focuses on relevance as a major criterion in the evaluation of a forensic expert’s report. The author ide...

<jats:p>The articles examines the key stages of on-site investigations (building inspections) conducted by forensic engineers. Typical challenges facing forensic practitioners are identified, and solution approaches are offered. This includes recommendations for possibl...

<jats:p>The paper looks at the history and current state of forensic analysis of the content and intentionality of contentious (extremist) materials. It discusses different approaches based in linguistics, psychology, and social sciences/humanities, as well as issues re...

<jats:p>The activity-based systems approach has been gaining in importance as a method of scientific inquiry, with its methodological orientation towards the study of objective reality in its relationship with our understanding of the nature, structure and genesis of va...

<jats:p>Multiple short and simple signatures have not previously been the subject of a separate study. Traditional approaches are usually insufficient for the analysis of such signatures. The author presents a methodology that will improve the effectiveness of handwriti...

<jats:p>Based on the analysis of the essence of forensic facial identification the article describes the framework of its methodological support considering the specifics of the research objects. The genesis of development of analysis methods for portrait images is brie...

<jats:p>The author reflects on whether validity can be considered both a principle of law and a functional principle of forensic expert activity. Disclosing the methodological significance of validity, which is yet to be fully and consistently incorporated in the proced...

<jats:p>The paper examines the problem of evaluating the findings of artwork examination in terms of its scientific objectivity. Current negative trends in judicial proceedings in Russia are analyzed in connection with incorrect determination of the subject of forensic ...

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<jats:p>Information on some vehicles dyeing technologies produced in Gorky Automobile Plant is presented, experimental infrared spectra of enamels and primer paints used for their dyeing are obtained.</jats:p>