History of the development of forensic psychological examination

The article discusses the history of forensic psychological and comprehensive examinations with her, isolated and analyzed three stages. The first stage - the emergence of forensic psychological examination as an independent branch of the forensic identification of the main subject of species introduction into the proceedings (the end of the 70s of the twentieth century - early 80s). The second stage - the emergence of forensic psychological examination and development of theoretical, methodological, organizational and legal problems, including - the criteria of forensic psychological expert assessment of legally significant abilities of the accused, victims and witnesses in criminal proceedings (the beginning of the 80s - 1997). The third phase - the development of forensic psychological examination in the new legislation of the Russian Federation, the emergence of forensic psychological expertology, the allocation of new types of forensic psychological examination in criminal proceedings, the introduction of this type of expertise in civil proceedings (from 1997 to the present). Designated urgent problems to be solved to improve the theory and practice of forensic psychological examination