FORENSIC INNOVATION: CONCEPTS, FUNCTIONS, TASKS AND RESEARCH PROSPECTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to topical problems of formation of forensic innovation as a new scientific direction in criminalistics. Theoretical and methodological bases for development and formation of forensic innovation, its functions, tasks and prospects of introduction of its provisions in law enforcement practice are investigated, perspective directions for research of the considered scientific concept are outlined.

It’s substantiated that in present-day realities attention should be drawn to research on forensic innovation on the basis of general theoretical approaches which ensure explanation and substantiation of such fundamental principles of any separate scientific theory as its genesis, essence, fact, hypothesis and theoretical construction. It’s noted that the level of formation and validity of any scientific theory, including forensic innovation, is determined by the degree and level of development of its theoretical and methodological foundations. I

t’s stressed that the process of constructing forensic innovation as a weighty forensic theory cannot yet be completed due to the large number of uncoordinated, undeveloped and debatable issues. Therefore, today the concept of forensic innovation has not yet reached the level of a separate forensic theory and is still in the process of forming. Accordingly, it is important to study and reveal patterns of functioning at the theoretical level, all stages of the life cycle of innovations in criminalistics, starting with creation, proposal, implementation, and ending with their application in practice. It’s noted that issues of determining the place of this theory in criminalistics taxonomy, its structure and functions are significant. It’s argued that currently scientific preconditions for the development and formation of forensic innovation are created and such research in modern conditions is a promising innovative direction in the development of criminalistics, which requires further research.

The methodological basis for the development and implementation of forensic innovations in law enforcement are activity, system-structural and technological approaches, the use of which is promising for the formation of a separate forensic theory: forensic innovation. An integrated approach to the development and formation of forensic innovation is the methodological foundation for further research on this issue. New scientific approaches to the solution of researched debatable questions are substantiated and promising directions for research on the specified problems are defined.