Digital criminalistics as a strategic direction for the development of modern criminalistics

Abstract

The modern stage of the development of criminalistics is characterized by global digitalization, which is not just a technical update, but a fundamental scientific prerequisite for the transformation of its theoretical foundations. In today’s realities, the processes of digitization and digitalization are objective, inevitable, they cannot be stopped, because they are such that they reflect the objective requirements set forth by scientific, technical and social progress. The transfer of information into digital form and digitization trends under such conditions are a new stage in the development of our society, they appear as a new era of development of the digital economy in Ukraine. They influence all spheres of activity of society and the state, including the activity of law enforcement agencies in the field of combating crime, modernize and update the development of legal science and criminalistics. Under such circumstances, the processes of digital transformation of criminalistics, which create prerequisites for the development and formation of new criminalistic knowledge, become especially relevant. The essence of the digitization of criminalistics is the application of digital technologies to identify, research and secure evidence of a digital nature. These processes affect the development of criminalistics as an applied science, which includes the latest methods of investigation related to digital information, as well as ways to detect and prevent them. Digitization in criminalistics is first of all manifested in the integration of digital technologies in criminalistic activities, which includes the development and use of special methods, techniques and tools for working with digital evidence and investigating crimes in the digital sphere. It enables the search, retrieval, preservation and investigation of digital evidence for the detection, detection and investigation of criminal offences. Such processes created the prerequisites for the formation of a new strategic direction in criminalistics – digital criminalistics, the concept of which requires special scientific research and determination of the vector of prospects for its development in modern conditions and in the future.