PECULIARITIES OF APPLYING THE JUDICIALPSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the coverage of the procedure of conducting and analyzing the types of judicial-psychological examination. The common and distinct characteristics that are present in each type of examination, the stages of its implementation for providing reliable information by a psychologist-expert in court are determined in the article. The types of judicialpsychological examination are outlined: judicial-psychological examination of emotional states; judicial-psychological examination of socio-psychological peculiarities of members of a criminal group; judicial-psychological examination of determining the ability of juvenile offenders for realizing the significance of their actions; judicial-psychological examination of individual psychological peculiarities of personality; post-mortem judicial-psychological examination; psycholinguistic expertise; judicial-psychological examination of victims in cases of sexual offenses.
The main tasks of judicial-psychological examination, the significance it plays in pre-trial investigation and how it is taken into account when making a decision by a court is described. Reasons for prescribing the judicial-psychological examination by a court and usage of a certain block of judicial examinations are analyzed. It was established that an effective assessment by the psychologist of the emotional states of the witness and the defendant depends not only on the experience of the psychologist himself but also on the amount of information in the criminal case file provided by a representative of the law enforcement authorities. It is determined that for judicial-psychological examination of individual psychological characteristics of personality is the psychological composition of the psychological portrait of the offender, which, in its turn helps to understand the psychological mechanism of committing the offense