CRIMINAL EXAMINATIONS IN MACEDONIAN COURT PRACTICE

Abstract

The fight against criminality is unthinkable without the application of criminal expertise. The criminological expert, using sophisticated criminological-forensic tools and applying scientific and practically based criminological methods, makes a very significant contribution to the detection and prevention of criminality, especially when it comes to organized crime or some other emerging forms of serious crimes. The purpose of forensic expertise is to establish important facts in relation to a specific operational and criminal case, as well as to reveal and clarify the so-called n. dark belt of criminality. The use of criminalistic methods, as well as the application and adaptation of methods from other scientific disciplines for the needs of forensic examination, enable successful preventive and reactive opposition to crime, which is professionalized and transnationally internationalized. This necessitates the need for criminal expertise to be represented in the fight against crime as a systemic, permanent, independent, creative and creative activity of specialized experts. In the judicial practice of the Republic of North Macedonia, the probative value of criminal expert reports is respected. It is also confirmed by an empirical research, which speaks sufficiently illustratively about the significance of this problem.