The Essence and the Historical Development of the Law Enforcement

Abstract

In the early phase of the development of law enforcement, the following views emerged: crimes, and the attitudes, endangering the society and the devices and methods related to the reconnaissance and the establishing of evidence can all be clustered within the functions of law enforcement. However, as long as these views were expressed solely by those interested in law enforcement, the experts of criminal science (criminology and criminalistics) have not associated prosecution and criminal justice to the law enforcement until the end of the twentieth century. This all happened despite the fact that the law enforcement science and the criminal sciences have several points of convergence. This study attempts to refer to these common points, and it also presents how prosecution and criminal law enforcement appeared in law enforcement science.

Keywords

• law enforcement
• criminal law enforcement
• criminal sciences
• criminology
• criminalistics