Systemic Features of Forensic and Legal Psychological Expertise
Ruben Aguzumtsyan, Ph.D.
Department for psychological expertise, The National Bureau of Expertise of the National Academy of Sciences
Yerevan, Armenia
Gayane Shakhverdyan
Department for psychological expertise, The National Bureau of Expertise of the National Academy of Sciences
Yerevan, Armenia
Manuk Ambartsumyan,
Department for psychological expertise, The National Bureau of Expertise of the National Academy of Sciences
Yerevan, Armenia
Tatevik Mamyan
Department for psychological expertise, The National Bureau of Expertise of the National Academy of Sciences,
Yerevan, Armenia
Armenui Gabrielyan
Department for psychological expertise, The National Bureau of Expertise of the National Academy of Sciences,
Yerevan, Armenia
DOI: 10.61246/ihs2/ra105126
In Chernov, Y., & Nauer, M. A. (Eds.). (2023). Handwriting Research: Forensics & Legal. P. 105-126.
Abstract
In modern reality, with the development of science and technology, a special role is assigned to the social institution of expertise. From different areas of expert research, it is necessary to emphasize forensic expertise, which ensures fairness, efficiency, and reliability of the judicial process. The main and main factor ensuring the purpose of forensic expertise is its staffing, indeed, the staff decides everything. Nowadays an expert is obliged not only to possess modern techniques and technologies, to have appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities, but also to be creative, to possess both constant aspirations to the acquisition of new knowledge and necessary competencies in rapidly changing life conditions.
Among all types of expertise, it is necessary to note forensic-psychological in connection with the complexity and peculiarities of the subject of expertise – personality. Any expertise is a serious scientific study, which must meet all the requirements of modern scientific requirements. For example, a forensic psychology expert must comply not only with the requirements of experimental psychology but also with ethical rules and norms in the study of the psyche of the individual. The complexity and difficulty of psychological expertise also lie in the number and variety of factors influencing the actions of a person: age, gender, social environment, upbringing, personal characteristics, emotional, volitional, and cognitive characteristics, etc. In addition, it is necessary to take into account the variety of scientific methods of research on the human psyche, each of which has its features and difficulties in the course of the realization of the process of psychological expertise.