Tactical and methodological basis of investigative inspection and purpose of expertise in relation to a paper document

Documents are an essential element of any information system functioning in society: social, economic, political, technical. Different types of information are materialized in different documents, which at present can be paper-based or electronic. Despite the fact that the modern state and its citizens are more and more “digitalized”, the traditional paper document does not lose its position, being the main form of consolidating both legal relations and human thoughts. Accordingly, it is he who is of utmost importance in proving the factual circumstances of the commission of crimes. A “paper” document can be the object of research of a number of examinations, which are far from being limited to traditional forensic ones, but are widely supplemented by other judicial ones. Each of them makes its own requirements for the documents, both the carriers of the direct object of research, and other materials necessary for the effective solution of the expert problem in order to establish the factual circumstances of the crime under investigation. In this regard, we consider it necessary to consider the tactical and methodological foundations of the examination of the document and the further appointment of examinations, taking into account their modern capabilities.