FORENSIC EXAMINATION OF WEAPONS: CONCEPT, SYSTEM, TASKS, DEVELOPMENT TRENDS

Abstract

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of legal, methodical, and organizational issues in the study of modern objects of weapons examination in order to substantiate ways of improving the solution of classification, diagnostic, identification, and situational expert tasks, as well as determining modern trends in forensic examination of weapons. The need to review objects of forensic examination of weapons is substantiated. The development prospects of expert specialty 3.4 "Research of weapons with a non-kinetic principle of defeat" were assessed. It is noted that the tasks of forensic weapons science are closely related to its subject and system. They can be classified into the main task facing the branch of knowledge, as well as general and specific tasks, among which it is possible to distinguish current and actual ones. The main task facing forensic weapons science is the systematization of the concept and structural features of relevant objects in order to determine the relevant criminal law prohibitions, the development and improvement of relevant state standards, special technical requirements, classifications, methods and technologies for the study of weapons and ammunition, as well as traces its application. Prospective areas of further scientific research in the field of weapons expertise have been identified.