Abstract
This article presents an overview of scientific sources, which reveals advantages and disadvantages of modern methods for assessing postmortem changes to optimize the determination of postmortem interval (PMI) in the forensic experts’ practice and to identify promising areas for further research.The purpose of the work is to explore peculiarities of PMI determination methods which are based on the evaluation of postmortem changes, through analysis of modern scientific literature.Conclusion. The state of the corpses on the place of discovery of crime is different and a variety of factors can affect the postmortem changes before experts arrive. Therefore, it is difficult to compare laboratory trials and real cases due to climate differences, geographic location, peculiarities of methods used, as well as research settings. Presently, there is no single assessment method that could accurately calculate a PMI in the range from several hours to several months, so now it is necessary to develop and implement new methods for PMI determination.
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