CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE DOMESTIC FORENSIC RESEARCH OF HANDWRITING
The article provides a summary review of individual scientific works, the authors of which consider the issues of formation and development of judicial handwriting in the USSR and the Russian Federation, note the individual stages of this development and offer various characteristics of the current stage, which is the domestic judicial handwriting. Based on the analysis of these works, the author offers his own point of view about the stages (periods) of development of judicial handwriting in Russia, individual problems that occur in this branch of forensic expertise, and ways to resolve them. The idea of revising the theoretical foundations of judicial handwriting is proposed. According to the author, a handwriting object should be considered as a physical and mathematical model that describes this object in dynamics - in the process of its execution. There is also a need to assess the scientific and reliability of the qualitative and descriptive method used in forensic handwriting expertise.