(2018) 4 Visn. Nac. akad. prokur. Ukr. 117–129
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Title of the article	Dermatoglyphics in Pre-trial Investigation
Author(s)	OLEKSANDR IZOTOV PhD in Law, Docent, senior lecturer, department of continuous training of military prosecutors, Institute for Continuing Professional Development, National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, alex.izprok@gmail.com HANNA HANOVA PhD in Law, Docent, senior lecturer, department of continuous training of military prosecutors, Institute for Continuing Professional Development, National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, ganova@ukr.net
Short title of the journal (ISSN)	Visn. Nac. akad. prokur. Ukr.
Year	2018
Issue	4
Pages	[117–129]
Language	Ukrainian
Abstract	Since forensics became science a lot of forensic means and methods have been developed, as well as results of research in other sciences, in particular medicine, psychology, logic, anthropology, mechanics, optics, etc. have been borrowed, modernized, and successfully used in counteraction to crime. This approach aims at solving two important tasks of criminal offences investigation: the unmistakable identification of a person on his/her individual characteristics; search for a criminal based on the study of traces left on the crime scene. Dactyloscopy, being the process of comparing two instances of friction ridge skin impressions, is still considered to be one of the most reliable means of person identification. However, the methods used by criminals, e.g. the ways of changing and falsifying fingerprints, as well as individual features of a person, are always improving. Therefore, forensic experts are forced to use, along with fingerprinting, methods of another science – dermatoglyphics, which have been successfully used in medicine, psychology, and anthropology. The affinity of fingerprinting and dermatoglyphics is obvious, since they have a common subject of study – human skin. Unfortunately, Ukrainian specialists almost do not study these issues, therefore domestic practices of crime counteraction do not have developments in this sphere. The purpose of the article is to outline some recommendations on application of dermatoglyphics in pre-trial investigation of criminal offences. The authors highlight some important issues in pre-trial investigation, which can be solved using dermatoglyphics. In particular, they argue the possibility to trace the race or ethnicity of a person, the blood relations between close relatives, the identification of unidentified corpses, the establishment of individual characteristics of a person. Recommendations on the application of dermatoglyphics achievements in establishing the psychological characteristics of the suspect with a view to choosing the tactics of his/her search, detention, interrogation, conducting an investigative experiment with his/her participation, and other procedural actions are also proposed. According to the results of the study, the authors state that traditional methods of identifying a person are weaker than modern, sophisticated, based on different characteristics of the human body. So, in the opinion of the authors of the article, the recommendation to create the new type of examination – dermatoglifical – is useful.
Keywords	criminal offence; pre-trial investigation; fingerprints; human skin; dermatoglyphics; identifi cation of a person.
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