Development of forensic tactics at the stage of mature science

Abstract

The article completes a series of works devoted to the study of the history of forensic tactics. The author’s vision of periodization of formation and development of this section of science is given. It is concluded that the trends of the current stage of development of forensic tactics are determined by radical changes in the evidence paradigm, based on the competitive ideology of the reformed criminal process. This poses a number of urgent tasks for scientists and practitioners, including improving the tactics of interrogation, inspection, search, presentation for identification, and the development of methods for conducting new investigative actions for our judiciary, such as simultaneous interrogation of two or more persons, investigative experiment. The whole spectrum of covert (investigative) investigative actions – an institution also still unknown to the domestic criminal process – is in dire need of tactical and forensic support.
 The need to substantiate the expediency of expanding the cognitive boundaries of forensic tactics, extending its recommendations to the field of criminal proceedings is becoming more and more tangible. It is necessary to continue developing the theory of court situations, tactical decisions, tactics of judicial interrogation and other procedural actions. The problems of planning court proceedings, in particular in the aspect of ensuring the continuity of court proceedings, remain relevant and require further research on the basis of the provisions of the current legislation.
 The specific activities of the investigating judge require completely new tactical developments. There is an urgent need to develop tactical recommendations on the means of ensuring criminal proceedings, overcoming the opposition to pretrial investigation and trial of criminal cases, protection of participants in criminal proceedings. Extremely important from the standpoint of current trends in criminal justice is the development of tactical and forensic recommendations to ensure judicial proceedings on the basis of procedural agreements and other special procedures of criminal proceedings (simplified, special, etc.).