About the language of forensics

Abstract

Criminology has established categories and concepts, this is its language, which should be used correctly by all criminologists, both researchers of relevant issues and law enforcement officers. These categories and concepts have their own interpretation, which reflects their place in the system of forensic concepts, as well as their place in the structures of scientific and practical research. For this reason, their correct use ensures the objectification of conclusions based on the results of these studies. In modern criminology, there are objective problems associated with attempts to formulate the concepts of “crime mechanism” and “criminalistic characteristics of crimes” in research, their place in the system of concepts of the theory of criminology and methods of crime investigation. The study of the concepts of “crime mechanism” and “criminalistic characteristics of crimes”, the content of these concepts, allowed us to substantiate their correspondence in the system of concepts of criminology as a science. The established attitude indicates that these concepts are different in their essence and their elementary systemic content cannot, in one way or another, be suppressed. In the system of investigation methodology, the relation of these concepts can be expressed by the correspondence “crime mechanism” — criminalistic characteristics of crimes” due to the different methodological purpose of these concepts.

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