Voloboiev A. Methods of investigation the unlawful handling with weapons and ammunition

The thesis is devoted to the theoretical generalization and new decision of a scientific problem on the development of an investigation technique of unlawful handling with weapons and ammunition. The author identified the forensic characterization of criminal offenses is an information basis in the methodology of investigation of unlawful handling with weapons and ammunition and plays a structural role in developing practical recommendations to improve the investigation of criminal offenses and related offenses. It is established that the forensic characterization of unlawful handling with weapons and ammunition is a system of interconnected forensically significant information about the subject of encroachment, methods and places of committing a criminal offense, the identity of the offender and typical traces of his criminal activity. In this regard, the content of the elements of the forensic characteristics of the unlawful handling with weapons and ammunition is revealed, their forensic features are systematized. In particular: small arms (by groups) and ammunition for it are classified (depending on the type of cartridge and the method of its manufacture) according to the criterion of demand among the criminal community; the methods of criminal offense are grouped depending on the state of illicit trafficking, their typical mechanisms and places of committing a criminal offense are determined; the types of criminals are singled out depending on the level of their competence and the socio-psychological portrait of a typical person who commits unlawful handling with weapons and ammunition is formulated; systematized typical traces of a criminal offense depending on the situation and the mechanism of its commission.