Scientific foundations of theoretical ideas about the laws studied by criminology

Abstract

The article discusses the scientific foundations of theoretical ideas about the regularities and laws studied by criminalistics. The historical development of ideas about the subject of criminalistics, introduction to the subject of science and forensic theory of the concept of “regularities” are shown. The authors disclose the concept of “regularity”, “law” and their correlation. The elements of the dialectical method, which are the basis of the theory and methodology of criminalistics, are given, the content of the basic dialectic laws, especially the law of the unity and struggle of opposites, is revealed. The concept of “reflection” (display) is considered as the result of the interaction of material objects that underlies the forensic investigation of the mechanism of formation the traces and the theory of identification.