Types of Criminal Provocation and Forensic Methods of Their Identification and Exposure

The article presents the author’s understanding of the concept of provoking crime, which is used as a basis for the criminalistic classification based on the following: the object of criminalistic cognition; its relation to the object of criminalistics; its relation to criminal activity; legal features; the type of the provoked publicly dangerous action provided for in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; the gravity of the provoked publicly dangerous action provided for in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; the subject of the crime provocation; the degree of involvement; the goals; the type of the provoker; the components describing the criminal, post-criminal situations and the situations of operative-search, criminalistic and criminal-procedural actions; the use of high tech means; the form; the manifestations in the objective reality; the type of provocation; the victim behavior of the provoked person; the object of provocation, and some others. The classification of the types of crime provocation provides an opportunity for a more effective analysis of the criminalistic methods of its identification and exposure in the procedural and non-procedural forms.