Anti-criminal Education and Modern Criminalistics (According to the Materials of the International Summer Baikal Legal School)

Abstract

The Author analyzes a number of documents defining the basis of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the development of legal literacy and legal awareness of citizens, in which legal education and legal information of citizens are indicated as one of the main directions for implementing such a policy. It is noted that such methods of forming a high level of legal culture of the population, traditions of respect for the law, law and order and court, honesty and integrity in general are implemented by law enforcement and judicial authorities, other state authorities and local self-government. It is emphasized that the means of legal education and legal information of the general population can be actively developed by representatives of the forensic science, including by creating a variety of printed and electronic memos, manuals, lectures, videos, posters, booklets, as well as electronic applications, multimedia presentations. Outlines the legal, theoretical and conceptual basis of this issue. Presented several proven and implemented in the practice of modern means of legal (anti-crime) education in the format of electronic mobile applications. It is emphasized that the new approach to the implementation of the above-mentioned direction of state policy is able to ensure the solution of such tasks as: synergy in the development of the sciences of the anti-criminal cycle (criminal law, criminal procedure, criminalistics, criminology, etc.); overcoming the notorious barrier between science and practice, the creation of scientifically based recommendations of an applied nature; legal education of citizens; increasing the effectiveness of countering crimes.

Keywords

• criminalistics
• crime prevention
• legal (anti-criminal) education
• concept
• electronic mobile applications