Criminalistics Doctrine of the Personality of Juvenile Participants in Criminal Proceedings

Ruslan Ildarovich Zainullin

Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Criminalistics at the Institute of Law of the Ufa University of Science and Technology

Abstract:

Criminalistics as a science has no cognitive value unless it provides rational tools that can improve the efficiency of detecting, investigating and preventing crimes. This qualitative study aimed to examine the criminalistics doctrine of the personality of juvenile participants in criminal proceedings taking into account factors like genesis, essence, structure, purpose, formation and prerequisites of a scientific theory. The primary data was collected for legal archives, writings of the leading scientists and criminologists. A theoretical framework guided this study to establish criminalistics as a science rather than an academic discipline. The result justified the need of a scientific criminalistics doctrine about the personality of a juvenile participant in criminal proceedings. The study made it evident that at the present stage there is a multi-level and multifunctional system of specific criminalistics theories about the personality of participants in criminal proceedings, which needs to expand, supplement and specify the general theoretical section of the science of criminalistics.  The findings of this study, definitions and the content and structure, would provide useful insights to legislators, judges and lawyers to understand this science of criminalistics. This will help them to find the relevance of the relationship between criminalistics theories within a single system. However, this doctrine in question requires a separate independent inquiry in future studies by overcoming the time limitations and the need to give more focused attention.

Keyword:

scientific theory, criminalistics doctrine, personality, criminal proceedings