In the criminalistic doctrine and practice of combating crime, the problems of creating, introducing and applying innovations in the practical activities of criminal justice bodies have always been and remain the most important tasks of criminalistics science. Theory and practice indicates that in the realities of criminalistics, there should currently be a system of scientific provisions, combined into a criminalistic theory, ensuring the transition from the system of scientific knowledge and their introduction into practice in order to optimize the process of implementing criminalistic recommendations. This theory is proposed to be called “criminalistics innovatics”. Therefore, in modern conditions, there is a need to develop criminalistic innovation as a private forensic theory and a new doctrinal direction in criminalistics science.

The purpose of the article is to study the theoretical and methodological foundations of criminalistic innovation as a new doctrinal direction in criminalistic science, define the concept of this criminalistic category, functions, tasks, highlight the most promising areas for further research and effectively implement the provisions of this scientific concept in the practice of law enforcement.

 Research deserves special attention today on criminalistic innovation on the basis of general theoretical approaches that provide explanations and substantiation of such fundamental principles of any particular scientific theory, such as its genesis, essence, fact, hypothesis and theoretical construction.

Analyzing the current state of scientific developments of the indicated problems, it follows that the process of building criminalistic innovations as we are working on a criminalistic theory cannot yet be considered complete due to the significant number of uncoordinated, undeveloped and controversial issues. In modern conditions, the concept of criminalistic innovation has not yet reached the level of private criminalistic theory and is still in the stage of formation. It is substantiated that in criminalistic science, scientific prerequisites for the development and formation of criminalistic innovation have been created, and such research in modern conditions is a promising innovative direction in the development of criminalistic science, requires further scientific research. Criminalistic innovation should be viewed as a scientific direction, as well as a specific activity of entities authorized by law. Criminalistic innovation as a scientific concept has a pronounced synthetic character, and its creation is the result of the operation of the law of integration and differentiation of knowledge in criminalistic science. The practical application of forensic innovations is carried out by special subjects, ensures the qualifications, efficiency and effectiveness of the use of innovative tools developed and introduced into practice. At the same time, the subjects of criminalistic innovation in theappropriate forms and forms of its application are the investigator, expert, prosecutor, judge, and employees of operational units. The methodological basis for the development and implementation of criminalistic innovations in law enforcement is the activity, system-structural and technological approaches, the use of which is promising for the formation of criminalistic innovation. An integrated approach to the development and formation of criminalistic innovation is the methodological foundation for further research on this issue.

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