The study of any object of scientific cognition is conditioned by the availability of appropriate tools – methodology. Today, the urgency of investigating into the issues which pertain to the methodology of the criminal procedure science entails primarily from the current large-scale and radical changes in the national law of criminal procedure intended to make it consistent with the European and international standards; furthermore, it is also backed by the fast-paced development of scientific and technological revolution, rapid updating of knowledge, and increasingly growing scientific and scientific engineering information, all these factors requiring not only elaboration but also a reconsideration of the key concepts and categories in the doctrine of criminal procedure with the use of the updated methodology.

Today, in contrast to the methodology of general theoretical jurisprudence, development of the methodology of the criminal procedure law science has not been addressed by scientists on a large enough scale.

The purpose of the article is to examine the current state of the methodology by which criminal procedure issues may be studied, and to determine the major promising directions of its improvement.

The author studies the issues pertaining to the concept, levels of methodology, principles of methodology, outlines the variety of methodological approaches as strategies for criminal procedure research, and presents own vision regarding the structure of the methodology of criminal procedure science. The author also reviews the general scientific and the special research methods, paying special attention to heuristic methods and methods for studying the electronic component of criminal proceedings.

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