Current Issues of Forming a Forensic Methodology for Investigating Corruption-Related Criminal Offenses Committed by Law Enforcement Officers
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Abstract. The formation of a forensic methodology for investigating corruption-related criminal offenses committed by law enforcement officers is an urgent and in-demand task both from the point of view of the requirements of a global democratic society and the formation of a national legal state. Currently, a comprehensive study of the formation of a forensic methodology for investigating corruption-related criminal offenses committed by law enforcement officers has not been carried out in domestic scientific literature. Accordingly, the issue requires urgent research, taking into account the conditions significantly adjusted by martial law and fundamental changes in legislation and the expansion of law enforcement practice. It has been established that the theoretical, methodological, legal, and praxeological foundations of the forensic methodology for investigating corruption-related criminal offenses committed by law enforcement officers are interconnected. The developed forensic methodology should be based on the following provisions: 1) the basis for the creation of this methodology is various types of criminal offenses from different sections of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, united by the concept of "corruption criminal offenses"; 2) the subject of forensic methodology is the regularities of not all illegal activity, but only that part of it that is associated with the commission of corruption criminal offenses by an employee of a law enforcement agency, with a specific mechanism for implementing criminal activity; 3) individual signs of corruption criminal offenses are closely interconnected in the process of proving, which determines the specifics of putting forward and verifying versions, planning an investigation, conducting individual investigative (detective) actions, operational-detective measures, etc. Taking into account the praxeological approach, the structure of the forensic methodology for investigating corruption criminal offenses committed by law enforcement officers is proposed.
Keywords: corruption; criminal proceedings; forensic characteristics; forensic recommendations; practical workers; law enforcement agency.
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