On the role of crime scene search in exposing of faking suicides

Exposing of faking crimes has always occupied the minds of scientists and practitioners. The high interest of this topic is due to both the practical and theoretical significance of the specified category of forensic knowledge, the particular complexity of exposing, identifying its features in the problematic conditions of an acute shortage of information about the event. Various circumstances of interest to the investigator may be concealed by staging. Often, the subjects of the crime try to disguise the actual nature of the criminal act. All this makes it relevant to identify dramatizations at the earliest stage of the criminal investigation. And effective activities in this direction contribute to improving the effectiveness of criminal proceedings, compliance with the shortest possible time to establish all the circumstances to be proved. The main signs of dramatizations are hidden in the material representations of various actions and are stored on objective media, the study of which is implemented as a part of crime scene search and objects located in it.