Mathematical Representatives in Forensic Methods of Crime Investigation
- Authors: Ermolaev A.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Far Easten Branch, Russian State University of Justice
- Issue: No 5 (2024)
- Pages: 92-102
- Section: Criminal law studies
- Submitted: 26.01.2026
- Published: 14.05.2024
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2072-909X/article/view/376218
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.37399/issn2072-909X.2024.5.92-102
- ID: 376218
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Abstract
Criminologists created a doctrine about the forensic characteristics of a type of crime (about typical models of crime mechanisms) in order to improve criminal proceedings, optimize the forensic methodology for investigating crimes, and suggested the existence of correlations between the various components of the criminalistic characteristics of a crime.
At the same time, modern criminology, with its intradisciplinary means, cannot confidently confirm the existence of these correlations. It has no means to calculate the volume of typified characteristics of the elements of the crime, which will be sufficient to put forward all possible investigative versions. Forensic science currently does not have the ability to use typified characteristics of elements of a crime to build a sequence of typical investigative leads according to the principle “from the more probable to the less probable” (or vice versa).
Since these problems cannot be solved by modern intradisciplinary means of criminology, scientific society should look for the way to solve these problems other areas of scientific knowledge.
Firstly, we should determine the fundamental foundations of forensic characteristics, taking into account the nonlinearity of modern science, the fundamentals of information theory, and apply systematic approach. The we can logically determine ways to study forensic characteristics and ways to improve forensic methods for investigating crimes.
The comparison of synergetic systems and forensic characteristics of a crime, taking into account the fundamentals of information theory, reveals the synergetic essence of forensic characteristics. Synergetic systems can be researched using mathematical representatives.
The possibilities of researching synergetic systems using mathematical methods are also applicable to the forensic characteristics of a type of crime. Thus, we can try to solve the above problems and optimize the process of preliminary investigation at the pre-trial stage of criminal proceedings applying mathematical representatives to the forensic characteristics of the crime.
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Alexander A. Ermolaev
Far Easten Branch, Russian State University of Justice
Author for correspondence.
Email: a.a.ermolaev50@gmail.com
Senior Lecturer of the Department, Judge of the Khabarovsk Regional Court in Honorable Retirement, Honorary Employee of the Judicial System of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation, KhabarovskReferences
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