Forensic Characteristics of Crime: Implications for Further Development

Abstract

We investigated one of the main scientific categories of criminology—the forensic characteristics of crimes. The current state of development of forensic characteristics of crimes is considered, the theoretical and practical problems connected with it are analyzed. We underlined the significance of forensic characteristics for the development of private forensic methods of crime investigation. The concept of forensic characteristics of crime is studied and grounded on the basic approaches analysis, which is reflected in the scientific literature. The basic provisions, defining the content of forensic characteristics of crimes, included the nature of the forensic characteristics, the forensic aspect of the information it reflects, the systemic nature of the data contained in the forensic characteristics, the specificity of the object of forensic characteristics—a crime, as an independent and separate type of activity, the purpose of forensic characteristics as an integral part of forensic methods of investigation of crime. We also analyzed the prospects for further development of forensic characteristics of crimes as a scientific category with modern information technologies, like artificial intelligence, and suggested the necessity and importance of continuing scientific research in this area.