Keywords
standardization
unification
accreditation
attestation
judicial practice
methodology
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Abstract
The article distinguishes three concepts: ‘standardization’, ‘accreditation’ and ‘certification’. All three aspects are tools for ensuring control over the quality, reliability and scientific authenticity of expert studies. Standards of forensic activities are fixed in the methods of conducting expert research; it has been considered the possibility of unifying the methodological support of expert research and related activities.
Foremost, the standards of forensic activities are fixed in the methods of conducting expert research, which are, relatively, programs for solving expert problems and a list of sequential operations. It is the methodological aspect of the quality of forensic examinations that is the focus of this article.
Standardization of individual areas of expert research is often considered as the next step after accreditation of forensic institutions to implement international standards in expert justice.
Most expert institutions both in Ukraine and internationally are accredited.
However, the accreditation procedure is reduced to the issues of documentation and management and to a large extent leaves aside the scientific and methodological aspects of the implementation of expert activities.
Standardization of forensic activity should be understood as an activity to achieve optimal orderliness of forensic expert activity by unifying the methodological support of expert research and related activities. It is important to understand that standardization is a continuous process, and involves the development of new standard techniques with the advent of new types of examinations.
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