ДА ЛИ JE КРИМИНАЛИСТИКА КРИМИНОЛОШКА НАУКА
IS CRIMINALISTICS A CRIMINOLOGICAL SCIENCE?

Summary/Abstract: While not entering into analysis of so-called Austrian conception of criminology, the author challenges its attitude according to which the science of criminalistics is a complimentary criminological discipline. He consistently distinguishes the general object of all criminal sciences from the particular subject-matter of individual criminal sciences. All of them have a common and general object of research (regular rules characteristic for crime, perpetrator and victim). By the nature of its function, criminalistics may have as its object only the criminal event, namely, informational-gnoseological regular rules characteristic for operational control, operational processing and criminal procedure. (The very criminal event is treated from the informational-gnoseological point of view). In order to develop the existing and to find new algorithms (models), the discovering of operational and other relevant material serving as evidence concerning the crime, the perpetrator and the victim, the science of criminalistics has to study operational and criminal-procedural practice, but only in its informational-gnoseological aspect. No other science deals with that topic. Criminalistics has also, in addition to common, its special methods, its theories to be developed, its substance. In such a way it is clearly distinguishable in relation to all other criminal sciences.

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