GENESIS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERT ETHICS AND ITS CURRENT STATE

Abstract

The article deals with the processes of origin, development and the contemporary state of professional ethics in forensic scientist activities. Urgency of the research is explained by the necessity to develop professional ethics with the purpose of upgrade examinations and experts' opinions, and knowledge of the ethics genesis makes it possible to analyze the peculiarities of ethical problems. The author reveals the features of the Russian research of expert ethics. These features can be summarized as follows. Firstly, the available scientific experience is dedicated, as a rule, only the ethics of the forensic scientists, and not all subjects of forensic scientist activities. Secondly, forensic ethics has never been explored in a comprehensive way, and has developed only within the framework of individual ethical issues. Thirdly, all of scientific ideas are presented in the articles that require generalization and systematization. In conclusion the author demonstrates stages of professional expert ethics genesis.