Criminalistics as a Methodological Basis for Combating Crime in Modern Conditions

The article examines the leading role of criminalistics in the system of anti-criminal activities. The author focuses on the cognitive function of the language of criminalistics as a special legal science. The development of criminalistics in modern conditions of high-tech crime goes from theory to practice. New theoretical concepts being developed are actively implemented in practice, encouraging researchers to create new forensic tools. Being closely related to other criminal law sciences, criminalistics acts as a methodological basis for combating crime in all its manifestations. It is concluded that criminalistics synthesizes legal and technical-science knowledge, adapting the achievements of scientific progress to support anti-criminal activities, identify and neutralize criminal risks and threats to public safety. Criminalistics, with its integrity of theory and practice, general theory and a system of special theories, is able to transcend national borders, off ering and forming not only an interdisciplinary, but also an international foundation for combating crime as a social phenomenon. Thanks to the integration of science and practice based on forensic techniques, a synergistic eff ect of successful crime prevention can be achieved.