Forensic examination as a social institution

Abstract

The paper deals with a judicial expert activity as a social institution with such categories as goals and functions, organizations and institutions, social groups and teams, material means of achieving goals, customs (or ideology) and so on. The interaction of these categories in the judicial system and the system of forensic examination is considered, which allows us to distinguish forensic examination as a separate social institution that is part of a larger social institution of law. There are quite a few scientific papers including sociological articles, devoted to forensic examination in Russia, but this phenomenon has not previously been considered as a social institution.