THE ORGANIZATION AND TACTICS OF CONDUCTING CRIME SCENE EXAMINATION IN MODERN CONDITIONS OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to clarify the subject of the crime scene investigation and to give recommendations on the tactics of conducting such investigative actions with the participation of a specialists’ group. In the course of the research, approaches to determining the essence of the crime scene investigation, as well as its goals, objectives and functions were specified. The experience of conducting a crime scene investigation by the police of the United States of America and of using state-of-the-art technologies, that can be used to fixate material objects that carry investigatory information of a committed crime, are summarized in the article. It is proved that the changes that have taken place in the structure of a crime, increasing level of crime organization, the use of modern methods to disguise criminal offenses by law breakers require nowadays somewhat different tactics of a crime scene investigation. Therefore, according to the author, investigation of a crime scene should be conducted by an operational investigative group, which should include experts from different fields of knowledge to perform the bulk of the work on the identification, fixation, removal and research of material objects that carry investigatory information of a committed crime of the offense. The author's vision of organization of a crime scene investigation is offered, as well as the recommendations on the tactics of conducting such investigative actions with the participation of a group of experts are formulated in the article. The reliability of the obtained results and conclusions is ensured by the use of a set of general scientific and special methods of cognition, chosen in
accordance with the set goal. Dialectical method was used as a basis for the subject of the article to be considered in the aggregate and the relationship of its elements. Formal-logical (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, analogy, abstraction), system-structural and comparative-legal methods were also applied. The results of the study are based on the generalized data on crime investigation practices, obtained by using sociological (interviewing, survey) and statistical methods.
Keywords: investigation; crime scene investigation; group of experts; operational investigative group.