Rozhik Y. Consequences of the crime as an object of forensic analysis

Qualifying scientific work on the rights of the manuscript. The dissertation on competition of a scientific degree of the doctor of philosophy on a specialty 081 - the Law. - National University «Odessa Law Academy», Odessa, 2021. The dissertation is the first in native science special comprehensive study of the crime consequences as a forensic research object. In the scientific paper is substantiated that the crime consequences are changes in the surrounding material environment and ideal representations arising from the event of a crime, and contain information about the crime scene and the criminal result. The crime consequences are a theoretical construction and have a specific empiric forensic value. The author notes that the forensic significance of the crime consequences is determined primarily by the possibility of establishing the essential crime circumstances and the identification of its participants, which is appeared in the solution of identification, diagnostic, and preventive tasks, as they allow to identify the factors that determine the crime commission and either eliminate them or complicate the new crimes’ commission of in its typical circumstances. In addition, for the crime consequences as an interaction result between the crime subject and the external environment, certain specific reflection patterns are inherent. They include objectively repetitive material consequences sets, which are typical for various forensic situations during the crimes’ commission; relative similarity in the processes of forming figurative and verbal information, related to the crime in the minds of victims, witnesses, suspects, and accused persons including psychophysiological, meteorological, temporary and other factors; relative stability of consequences (ability to keep its shape and structure for a certain time); reproducibility related to the crime traces; temporality.