SOME ASPECTS OF THE USE OF SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE INVESTIGATION OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES

Abstract

The article defines the concept of “special knowledge” as one of the most controversial scientific categories of the criminal process and criminology. The development of special knowledge and the use of their capabilities in criminal proceedings acquires additional relevance in connection with a significant percentage of committed armed criminal offenses, as well as the situation that arose with the beginning of full-scale military operations. Integration processes accompanying society affect the development of science and its individual branches. The deepening and expansion of scientific research in one field inevitably leads to the need to use such achievements in other fields. Such interaction generates not only new directions in research, but also leads to the emergence of new methods, means of carrying out scientific research and calls for the development and improvement of existing criminal procedural norms and even entire institutions. All this brings legal science in general and each of its branches to a new level. Today, law enforcement activity cannot be imagined without the participation of knowledgeable persons – specialists in various fields of scientific and technical knowledge, including forensic experts. At the same time, a detailed study of the theoretical and applied aspects of the use of special knowledge in criminal proceedings reveals a number of problems that are the most difficult to investigate.