Borders of use criminalistics and medical knowledge in crime investigation

Abstract

The article studies of the issues related to usage of criminalistic and medical knowledge in criminal proceedings. I have singled out the forms of their usage including separate or parallel usage, interaction and mutual borrowing of individual techniques and methods.

Today, criminalistics is actively developing as a science, with its theoretical wing going particularly strong. Scientists come up with new concepts, certain provisions or theories. However, I believe that the currently attention is partially shifted from the issues related to usage of  criminalistic knowledge and their place in the system of modern scientific knowledge in various spheres. This is especially true in cases when criminalistic knowledge has to be explored in connection with the modern medical knowledge. Although the following scholars studied the issues related to usage of criminalistic knowledge: R. S. Belkin, V. A. Zhuravel, N. I. Klymenko, V. Yu. Shepitko and others. Нowever, their works do not touch heavily upon the connection between usage of criminalistic knowledge in criminal proceedings simultaneously with expertise in other scientific areas, particularly, Medicine. Thus, the purpose of the article is to outline the extent of usage of  criminalistic  and medical knowledge in crime investigation. For example, criminalistic and medical knowledge may be used in criminal proceedings in a variety of ways. It may be used separately or in parallel, in interaction or interconnection. The mutual interaction between these two areas of knowledge have given birth to a variety of branches of science including “criminalistic medicine”, “medical traosology”, “medical and criminalistic examinations” and “medical and  criminalistic identification”.