OVERCOMING OF COUNTERFEIT DURING THE FORENSIC HANDWRITING EXAMINATION: SYSTEMS OF TACTICAL TECHNIQUES

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze theoretical issues and develop practical recommendations on the tactics of taking experimental handwriting and signature samples in the face of the tested persons during forensic handwriting examinations. Methodology. The methodological basis is the general laws and categories of the theory of cognition, in particular the provisions of the materialist dialectic on the cognition of social processes and phenomena associated with the studied problems. In the process of consideration of the topic were also used: historical and legal method, which analyzed the genesis of the development of tactical and technological principles of investigative actions, theoretical developments in forensic aspects of counteraction in forensic handwriting examinations; system, structural and comparative methods establish the essence of tactics of forensic handwriting examinations, clarify the methods of overcoming the opposition of the inspected persons to handwriting examination, as well as grouping them into systems, offer recommendations for their use; the sociological method (questionnaire) was used to interview investigators and experts on a specially designed questionnaire; statistical method (grouping of information, analysis of quantitative indicators) summarizes the data on the results of the analysis of expert opinions, protocols for sampling handwriting and signatures; experiments on the reproduction of other people's signatures by different categories of persons were carried out experimentally. The scientific novelty arises due to the beginning of the results of the experiment conducted by the authors of the tactical method of overcoming the opposition of the inspected person in case of false information about this person's ignorance of transcription of a particular person's signature, which is to provide the subject with a short signature. Conclusions. As a result of the circumstances and conditions of the manuscript; obtaining samples of handwriting of the inspected person in the situation of his possible refusal; communication with such a person and influence on him in the process of sampling; overcoming the opposition of the inspected person. Thus tactical methods of overcoming of opposition of the checked person provide: for refusal to provide experimental samples of handwriting and signatures – the use of methods of psychological influence and logical persuasion; in case of distortion of the inspected person of his/her handwriting – acceleration of a rate of writing and increase in duration of sampling; if false information is reported about the inspected person's ignorance of the transcription of the signature of a particular person – providing the subject's signature for a short-term visual inspection. the research, in particular, it was found that, depending on the current investigative situation, the system of tactical methods of sampling is aimed at: establishing