Forensic Structure of Interrelated Types of Crimes: Content, Classification and their Use Aimed at Developing Integrated Methodologies of Crime Investigation

Abstract

The article considers modern scientific views on the development of forensic crime investigation techniques. The directions are given for using the category "criminalistic structure of crimes" proposed by V. F. Ermolovich with regard to the classification of crime mechanisms developed by A. M. Kustov. The following multi-level classification of forensic structures of interrelated crimes is proposed, using the principle of combining the classification grounds, according to the nature of the given interrelations between crimes (or their methods of committing) and their subjects, taking into account criminal intent and the dynamics of criminal activity: 1) by intent to commit a major crime: preparatory, attendant, cumulative; 2) by intent to commit several crimes: complex, two-level; varied; the following: on concealment of a crime or realization, as well as legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means; on the use of a criminal result; on the acquisition and sale of stolen property or its legalization (laundering) by a new person; to achieve a criminal result due to "chain reaction"; 3) by the method of committing a crime or the dynamics of its development: monotypic, heterogeneous, careless. The necessity of using the proposed classification of criminalistic structures of interrelated crimes as an element or a link to create typical mechanisms of interrelated types of crimes and, accordingly, of new complex forensic crime investigation methods is grounded.