Integrative role of criminalistics in criminal court procedure

Science was recognised as a productive force in the second half of the 20 century. It means that the main aim and condition of its existence, its fundamental feature is working out of scientific knowledge. This knowledge is highly demanded by the society and practical issues, thus being an indicator of the need and success of development of science. The task of science, its essence and reality lie in the sphere of knowledge. Only in this case we can appreciate the society, nature or uncertainty at its true value. Knowledge is both the start and the finish of science, the prerequisite determining further development of any science, including criminalistics. We can come to the conclusion that the social and legal value of science is defined not only by its subjective aspect but also by knowing the laws of the reality, reflecting the deep essence of cognoscible things, the mechanisms of coming into existence and moving, application of the things which were learnt to apprehend. The comprehension of goals achieved by criminalistics, appraisal of its place and role in criminal procedure is a justified scientific task. At present, with the intensive growth of knowledge in criminalistics, the integrative processes are of special importance. Taking into account the differences between criminalistics, formal and substantive law, theoretical and practical knowledge, the scale of covering and depth of scientific and cognitive, investigative and tactical, methodical and criminalistics tasks we can understand the fundamentality of knowledge and, accordingly, criminalistics itself, its place and role in the system of criminal legal sciences. On the whole, we can state that the integrative processes in criminalistics are increasing now; they form the characteristic of its development indication. Today, as never before, it is necessary to form a different point of view on the integrity of criminalistics, its interpretation not only in the sense of its functioning as a monolithic integrity but as an interdisciplinary science. Our modern society, the world of science, law, and criminal court procedure should have a new viewpoint on criminalistics, as its basis now is intellectualisation of knowledge about crime and investigation of crimes.

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