The Use of Databases in the Analysis of the Scene of Crime

• Nataliia Akhtyrska Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3357-7722
• Olena Kostiuchenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2243-1173
• Yurii Sereda Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman”, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5244-3573
• Anna Vynohradova Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3147-0821
• Ivan Miroshnykov Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-075X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46925//rdluz.42.11

Keywords: Criminal proceedings, crime scene, investigation, databases, effectiveness of evidence

Abstract

The problems of using databases in the crime scene analysis are due to changes in the structure of crime, adaptation of innovative technologies to the needs of law enforcement, and protection of human rights. The complex of these aspects determines the relevance of the topic. The aim of the study is identifying the peculiarities of using databases in the crime scene analysis and the prospects for improving law enforcement activities with a view to crime trends. The research employed logical, comparative methods, forecasting. It was revealed that the mechanism of database creation and use is aimed at the fulfilment of the tasks of working with traces at the crime scene. Correspondence of databases to the needs of law enforcement activities is assessed through criteria grouped into resource, organizational and regulatory clusters. Prospective databases should take crime trends into account. The latest methods of working with traces are the final stage of the adaptation of research in the field of criminal justice. The academic novelty of the study consists in a critical examination of the use of databases in the crime scene analysis as a complex of the issues of communications and innovations in law enforcement activities. The study opens up prospects for the development of unified algorithms for information exchange for counteraction to transnational crime.

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