Subject, Objects and Types of Railway Forensics

Abstract

Railway forensic examinations are one of the primary means to establish the circumstances in the detection and investigation of crimes connected to the safety of traffic and operation of railway transport or traffic accidents. This type of forensic expertise falls within the class of transport and technical forensic examinations together with aviation, auto-technical, and water-technical. The forensic and expert literature still has not developed any theoretical provisions concerning the subject of the railway forensics, its objects, tasks, as well as the methodology for conducting the study. The object of forensic expertise is an integral and defining feature of the generic and species identity of the expert study, a source of information about specific events. Based on the investigative and expert practice studied by the author, specialized literature, and the author’s formualtion of the subject of the examination under consideration the classification of objects of the railway forensic examinations is proposed, the types of this kind of forensic expertise are identified.