Development and maintenance of automated crime investigation techniques

The subject of the study is the patterns of detection, fixation, preliminary research, the use of criminally significant information and means of processing it in order to identify, disclose, investigate and prevent crimes, as well as the creation of technical means, techniques, recommendations, automated information systems (AIS) optimizing the investigation and disclosure of crimes based on the knowledge of these patterns. The author examines in detail the issue of creating automated crime investigation techniques – a type of information decision support systems. Special attention is paid to the components (databases) of AIS and their content. The author comes to the conclusion that one of its components is the database "Targeting". The functioning of this component and the automated system as a whole should be based on the provisions and laws of forensic science. The methodological basis of the research is represented by the universal dialectical method of scientific cognition, general scientific methods of empirical and theoretical cognition, private scientific methods (formal logical, modeling), as well as special scientific methods (structural criminalistic, etc.). The main conclusions of the study are the definition of the main (basic) structural component of the automated crime investigation methodology - "Targeting". This database should include two blocks: 1) a block of circumstances to be established and proved during the investigation of crimes with the possibility of data entry by the investigator, which will allow specifying these circumstances, taking into account the investigation he is conducting; 2) a block providing the definition of goals in the investigation of non-obvious crimes. At the same time, the system of goals formed according to the crime under investigation is fixed in the AIS as a separate file, with the possibility for the investigator to access its contents and adjust the system of goals taking into account the progress of the investigation. This will make it possible to make a breakthrough in the creation of automated investigation techniques.

organizing an investigation, goal setting, version, logical consequence, investigation methodology, database, automation, information technology, investigative situation, information system