THE IMAGE OF THE PERSON’S APPEARANCE IN ART AND FORENSICS

Abstract

Uniform interpretations of terms in criminology, forensic science and legal Sciences are undergoing significant changes in the era of globalization of social processes. Let’s focus only on some concepts related to the appearance of a person and her image. The problem is the lack of a common point of view on the image of a person, by which criminologists understand the material object, and lawyers - action. The conflict is that it is important for criminologists to establish an individual identity between a person imprinted on a material carrier of information at the time of Commission of the offense and a suspect whose images are presented for comparison, and for civilists - the paramount fact is the similarity of the image of the plaintiff on a material carrier of information with his personal image, which arises from a third-party observer in the perception of the similarity of his image. The duality of this situation prevents the claimant from asserting his or her interest when he or she believes that there is an illegal use of his or her personal image. It seems that the solution of urgent tasks of portrait identification can be found by joint efforts of specialists of different directions by means of improvement of the legislation in the field of protection of the rights and interests of citizens, taking into account the principles developed by forensic experts.