Main Catalog Jurisprudence Criminal Law and Criminology

Obtaining criminally significant information when studying video record

Authors: Bayush A.A.
Published in issue: #11(40)/2019
DOI: 10.18698/2541-8009-2019-11-543
Category: Jurisprudence \| Chapter: Criminal Law and Criminology
Keywords: forensic examination, forensic expert, forensic examination of video recording (FEVR), video recording (videogram), evidence, forensic information about the events
Published: 31.10.2019

The article is devoted to the study of video recordings, especially the fact finding, i.e., criminally significant information about events captured in the videos submitted for examination and related to the manifestation of various extremist activities, theft, murders, traffic accidents and many others. The concept of video recording is directly disclosed, the legal framework is given for the use of video recordings as evidence in criminal, administrative and civil cases under investigation. Examples of video recordings that are further investigated by a forensic expert in the process of video recordings forensic examination are given, a classification of video recordings by source of origin is given.

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