Radets'ka V. The language of criminal science

Integral ties between linguistics and criminalistics concerning terminology, historical aspects of formation and present-day status of the language of criminalistics, the possibili-ties to use linguistic methods for normalization of the language of criminal science are being investigated in these thesis. Here are also given recommendations for improving the lan-guage of criminal science and codifying the criminalistical terminology. The language of criminal science is interpreted as a multifunctional substance of in-tellectual information delivery. The author has formulated its functions, structural features and broadened the overview of the tendencies of the language of criminal science devel-opment. The language competence of law enforcement personnel, the practical role of lan-guage of criminalistics in composing procedure documents, the necessity of profound learn-ing of the language of criminal science in training process are examined in this work. Some types of practical works which include situational texts and systems of controlling knowl-edge of criminalistical terminology are proposed. The criteria of introducing new termino-logical units in dissertation researches on specialty 12.00.09. are also concerned. Practical recommendations are aimed to be used in criminal science being a subject of study and prac-tical activity.