METHODOLOGICAL AND FORENSIC PROVIDING OF COLLECTION OF EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

Abstract

The scientific article is devoted to the coverage of the general characteristics of methodological and forensic evidence collection in criminal proceedings (on the example of the investigator’s activity). It is emphasized that a special place in forensic security is occupied by methodical forensic security, because it both takes into account the components of technical criminalistic and tactical forensic security, and has an independent meaning and content. It is noted that the collection of evidence as the main element is of key importance among the tasks of forensic methods. The purpose of the article is to provide a general description of methodological and forensic support for evidence collection in criminal proceedings (on the example of the investigator’s activity). During the analysis of both criminal procedural legislation and scientific sources in the field of criminal procedural law and criminology, the authors highlighted the following concepts: “forensic methodology”, “collection of evidence”, “investigator”, etc. The authors focused on the highlighted: four-level classification of forensic methods; essential features of individual forensic methods; elements of the structure of the method of investigation of certain types (groups) of criminal offenses; stages of investigation of criminal offenses in forensic methodology. The article notes that obtaining proper and admissible evidence, which ensures the effectiveness of pre-trial investigation and criminal proceedings in general, depends on the correct process of evidence collection not only in the criminal procedural aspect, but also in the forensic aspect. The authors came to the conclusion that the use of methods and means of forensic techniques, means of forensic tactics under specific conditions, taking into account the general provisions of forensic methods during the collection of factual data (in the criminal procedural aspect) or forensically significant information (in the forensic aspect), implemented in a complex, constitutes methodical and forensic support for gathering evidence in criminal proceedings.