activities, and the change in the criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine, there is an
urgent need to revise places of criminalistics in the system of professional training of
lawyers and its relation with other educational disciplines. In our opinion, the
substantive side of the solution of this urgent problem should be contained in the
current analysis of issues of educational and methodological character and
psychological peculiarities of teaching criminology.
In this aspect, it should be noted that, as noted by H. A. Matusovskyi, criminology
as an educational discipline took shape and improved due to the achievements of the
scientific field of criminalistics. The formation of domestic criminology as an
independent legal science largely determined the place of criminalistic knowledge in
the educational process [2, p. 76]. Displays the main content of the relevant science,
being organically linked with it, the discipline of its purpose is different from the
scientific field. It is intended not for theoretical development of objects of science, but
for the mastering of knowledge and practical experience in the investigation of crimes.
It is about getting criminalistic knowledge, techniques and methods, as well as
experience in law enforcement work, in accessible form to the trainees. In our opinion,
the solution of the theoretical issue concerning the relation of science and its
corresponding discipline is of great practical importance for the improvement of the
modern educational process in the system of defense industry of Ukraine. This is a
specialization problem in teaching criminology. Thus, in Soviet times, in the
preparation of lawyers, there were two types of specialization: 1) more general -
judicial; prosecution and 2) narrow - investigative and forensic. These types of
specialization found their reflection in the curriculum [2, p. 84]. Thus, under these
requirements, criminalistics programs were being developed at law schools of that
time.
In Ukraine, training legal specialists of a narrow specialization was refused and
the idea of preparing a high-quality modern lawyer of a broad profile was declared. In
our opinion, the correct general idea of solving this issue and leaving the understanding
of the function of legal labor only as a "punitive", unfortunately, had a negative effect
on the process of training modern law enforcement lawyers who began to master
"unified" forensics along with future lawyers focused on work in the bodies of justice,
state authorities and self-government, in entrepreneurial activity, etc. Thus, all students
began to study "standardized" uniform criminology without taking into account the
specifics of work in various law enforcement agencies (for example, the Ministry of
Internal Affairs, the SBU, the prosecutor's office).
In our opinion, this problem in its time prompted the leadership of the National
Academy of Security of Ukraine to review the training programs for future employees
of state security agencies, analysis and adjustment of their content. Therefore, after
studying the general course of criminology and training of cadets of practical training
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