Criminlaistic strategy and trends in criminlaistics

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the problems of criminalistic strategy and trends of criminalistics. These problems are decided by analysing criminal policy in connection with criminal law, penitentiary, criminal procedural, criminological policies and criminalistic strategy. The concept of criminalistic strategy is formulated as a field of knowledge connected with counteraction to the crime with the help of criminalistic means in the long term. The authors also paid special attention to the functions of criminalistics in different ways: 1) the function of science development (scientific); 2) the function of ensuring practice (investigative, prosecutorial, judicial, lawyer) (practical). The functions of criminalistics are differentiated depending on their focus: 1) cognitive; 2) prognostic; 3) educational (or didactic); 4) preventive. As a result of this research the authors have formulated some trends in criminalistics: 1) crimininalistics started to support not only investigators and prosecutors by criminalistic means, but judges, barristers and other participants of judicial proceeding, as well; 2) criminalistics has to turn from studying the traditional materially recorded traces to the investigation into sonic (acoustic), electronic and genome ones; 3) expansion of the criminalistics limits.