the founder of forensic science H. Hross was recommended to include this science in
the program of training students in the law faculties of universities. And since the
origins of criminology were such authorities as H. Hross, R. Reisi, A. Nicheforo, they
achieved at the end of the XIX century at the congress of the International Union of
Criminologists, the inclusion of criminalistics in the number of academic disciplines
studied at the law schools of a number of Western universities [12, p. 115]. At first, it
was taught at the Prague, Lausanne and Rome universities, and then at the universities
of Germany and other western countries. And almost until the middle of XX century
criminalistics was a compulsory university law discipline, which was especially
important for the qualified training of forensic investigators and prosecutors [13, p.
24]. And even then, many scholars noted the fact that the teaching of forensics - a task
something new and not easy for a classic classical lawyer. As a specific applied
discipline, criminology requires a researcher of solid knowledge not only in the field
of law, but also in many other scientific fields: physics, chemistry, biology, medicine,
psychology [14, p. 149-154].
From the perspective of the subject of our study, it seems to us that one of the
strategic directions of the development of forensic science in Ukraine, together with
the global modern processes of state building and the development of a truly legal state
in Ukraine is the reform of the domestic system of higher education. The state policy
in this area is aimed at achieving the Ukrainian education of the modern world level,
the revival and further development of national scientific and educational traditions,
updating of content, forms and methods of teaching, multiplication of the intellectual
potential of Ukrainian society. The implementation of these strategic guidelines in the
field of higher education depends to a large extent on the state of its legal and regulatory
framework, which should be a solid foundation and a system of benchmarks in the
practical activities of higher education institutions, their leaders, and all participants in
the educational process.
In Ukraine, a certain legal and regulatory framework for higher education has
already been established, other normative acts are in a state of development and
approbation, and radical changes have been made to the criminal-procedural legislation
of Ukraine. These changes directly affect criminology and are original milestones in
the development of forensic science, aiming at certain goals of its training course and
stipulating certain tasks for servicing the needs of society. In our turn, the main general
task of "overloading" the normative-legal framework regulating the activities of the
PLO in Ukraine is, in our opinion, that the content and requirements of the latter have
been mastered by each employee of the higher school and taken as a normative basis
for the management and the organization of the activities of higher educational
institutions, their structural units, which in turn will inevitably affect the quality of the
training of future specialists.
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