Foreign Forensic Technologies: The Concept of Relevance

• Main Author: I. E. Nikitina
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science 2020-12-01
• Series: Теория и практика судебной экспертизы
• Subjects: relevance; forensic technologies; criminal procedure; court investigation; specialized knowledge; evidentiary process; defense; prosecution
• Online Access: https://www.tipse.ru/jour/article/view/629

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.