Solving issues of organizing forensic science activities and, as a result, development of forensic science institutions is a direction of scientific researches requiring constant monitoring by scientists and practitioners. ...

The obligation of the State to organize and conduct criminal proceedings effectively and efficiently are inseparable from the requirement to complete the proceedings within a reasonable time. Various studies and case law ...

The authors very critically refer to selected Polish regulations, particularly with regard to the expert witness’ position in a criminal trial. The main problems discussed in the article are as follows: absence of a ...

The history of forensic biology is strictly connected with two names – Karol Landsteiner who in 1901 discovered blood types in an ABO system. The other one is Alec Jeffreys who in 1985 came upon polymorphic minisatellite ...

An expert is a natural person with an appropriate knowledge in a specific field that may be used by a court in cases requiring specific knowledge. In Italy, the expert institution, governed by the Code of Civil and ...

The material world is characterized by the interconnectioness and conditionality of phenomena. Every crime affects various objects in the external world and causes changes in the environment. In criminology, all these ...

The author points to a very low level of judicial and investigative practice, with very low social credibility. He considers and states possible causes, despite the quality training of judicial and security practitioners. ...

The study aims to draw attention to many discussion areas related to creating and introducing standards in judicial sciences. The creation of standards in forensic sciences is not an end in itself. Standardizing the ...

This work is intended to address identification issues and present the problem of using initials from the handwriting expert point of view. Beginning the analysis of the main problems in examination of the signature ...

Authors of the article intended to remind the general rules of gathering of comparative material for forensic examination. It seems that this is very clear and routine procedure performing pretrial investigation, but the ...