FEATURES OF EXAMINATION OF A CORPSE DURING THE INVESTIGATION OF MALICIOUS FAILURE TO FULFILL DUTIES OF CARE FOR A CHILD OR A PERSON UNDER GUARDIANSHIP OR CARE ESTABLISHED

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the tactical features of conducting an examination of a corpse during a pre-trial investigation of malicious failure to fulfill the duties of caring for a child or a person for whom guardianship or custody has been established. The authors have considered in detail and specified the goals and objectives of the investigative (search) action in the context of the investigation of malicious failure to fulfill the duties of caring for a child or a person in respect of whom custody or guardianship has been established. The issue of the interaction of the investigator and other participants in the examination, in particular the forensic medical expert, was revealed. The work reasonably emphasizes the need to involve specialists from various fields of knowledge to conduct an examination of a corpse during the investigation of crimes provided for in Art. 166 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The article offers an authors’ approach to the preparatory stage of conducting the indicated investigative (search) action. On the basis of the analysis of the materials of the criminal proceedings, the places of examination of the corpse, inherent in the investigation of the crime provided for by Art. 166 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. In addition, the article provides a list of technical means used in the course of an investigative (search) action, features of detection, fixation and removal of traces, which individually or in their entirety may indicate the commission of a malicious failure to fulfill the duties of caring for a child or a person in respect of whom guardianship or care has been established. During the research, the author used dialectical, formal-logical, systemic-structural methods.