The subject of the work is to consider, analyze and supplement the definition of the concept, tasks of innovative methods of expert research, including innovations, as the final result of the innovation process in forensic expertise. The aim is to research and develop a classification of innovations in forensic activities with their division into activity (operational) and organizational and technological, as well as recommendations for the introduction of innovations in the conditions of digitalization. In the research methods of system-structural, comparative-legal and statistical analysis, formal-logical, general scientific and private scientific methods of scientific cognition were used. As a result of the analysis of historical foundations of the introduction of innovations in the activity of domestic forensic organizations (in the works of A. R. Shlyakhov, Kh.-M. A. Taho-Godi, etc.) and main directions of the development of innovative methods of modern well-known forensic scientists (N. P. Mailis, T. F. Moiseeva, A. I. Usov in the forensic examination, the much greater knowledge intensity of innovative methods of recent years has been proved. Special attention is paid to a detailed analysis of modern methods of expert research, including the latest domestic technologies of molecular genetic research, the development of expert systems with self-learning properties in the conditions of digitalization. The developed recommendations of legal, organizational and methodological nature on the introduction of innovative methods into forensic expert practice allow us to come to the conclusion that it is necessary to accelerate the introduction of innovations, especially with the use of artificial intelligence, which will improve the quality of forensic expert activity.
INNOVATIVE METHOD, INNOVATION, FORENSIC ACTIVITY, DIGITALIZATION, FORENSIC EXAMINATION
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