Reasons for not Detecting Fingerprints on the Objects of Expert Examination and Ways to Eliminate Defects

Nail Ibad Abbasov1& Maleyka Nazim Abbasova2

Abstract
Scientific research aims to identify objective and subjective reasons for the non-detection of fingerprints on the objects of examination and to offer effective ways to eliminate the defects thereof. The system of philosophical, general scientific, and special scientific methods (comparison, description, analysis and synthesis, induction, deduction and analogy, abstraction, generalization, systematic approach, and others) was used to hold the scientific
research. The article considers the practical and technical problems of the detection of fingerprints by forensic experts on the objects of research in the example of Azerbaijan. As a result of o scientific research, the reasons for the lack of traces on the objects of study during forensic fingerprint examinations were revealed, the effectiveness of techniques used during such examinations was evaluated and recommendations for experts and law enforcement officers were given. The study resulted in scientific and practical recommendations for the
examination and detection of fingerprints. Recommendations for investigators, specialists, and experts on the seizure and packaging of physical evidence, and preparation of materials for fingerprint examination were developed.

Keywords: forensic expert, foreign experience, fingerprints, expertise, holistic processing, composite task