provisions of the criminalist to the new, non-traditional for this science, objects: the
specifics of the use of forensic science in civil, arbitration, administrative proceedings,
in customs, in the activities of the notary, etc.. This section could also include new
theories that are actively being developed by some researchers and relate to the
expanded use of criminology within the actual criminal process. A similar section
should be added to the academic discipline, which will significantly increase the role
and importance of criminological science during the training of lawyers "[5, p. 14].
For our part, we agree with the opinion of T. S. Volchetska concerning the
universality of criminology, however, we do not consider it appropriate to teach it in
full to train multi-skilled lawyers. In this sense, one should point out the current
problem of the criminological discipline related to its integration and adaptation to the
modern legal education system, in which opinions are expressed on the unnecessary
nature of criminology, in general its alleged "narrow" and unpredictability of teaching
for all lawyers. Thus, M. P. Yablokov points out the reasons for such positions. In this
regard, he writes: "Further improvement of forensic methods and technologies and
cultivating their importance not only for the implementation of criminal-procedural,
but also other legal activities is one of the important factors that strengthen the role and
significance of contemporary criminology in the field of law enforcement and at the
same time form one of the trends of its further development. However, the possibilities
of criminology are largely unfulfilled in broad legal practice and are only suggestions
for a number of reasons, the elimination of which is one of the important tasks of
modern criminology. Among such reasons are the following factors:
- firstly, this is the result of inadequate knowledge of students and practical
practitioners and scholars in branch legal sciences about the above mentioned
possibilities of criminology (gaps in teaching, inadequate journalistic and informative
and explanatory activities of criminologists);
- secondly, the development in the contemporary legal community of thoughts on
the small benefits of narrow professional knowledge of forensic science for lawyers,
not related to criminal justice, and the cultivation of this view in the process of
orientation of students in the choice of specialization;
- thirdly, the presence in the legal literature and even in certain textbooks on
criminology of thought about the non-legal nature of criminology. The fact is that
sources of evidence and other legally significant information are not always used by
criminologists in the field of juridical relations [6, p. 38]. Not all of its tasks and
recommendations are strictly juridical [7, p. 20-22]. Criticisms of such views are
devoted to a number of publications in juridical literature [8; 9].
Naturally, similar views on modern criminology as a science and a discipline that
exist in the minds of not only students of non-criminological specialization lawyers,
but also many representatives of branch legal sciences and even some representatives
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