ON THE DIRECTIONS OF ENHANCING APPLICATION CHARACTERISTICS OF CRIMINALISTIC RESEARCHES
Criminalistics is often criticized for being too theorized and remote from the practice needs. The main direction of further improvement of crime investigation criminalistic methods should be enhancing their pragmatic aspect. The practically useful results for criminalistics as a science should be application recommendations which can be widely adapted and effectively used both by the professional participants of criminal proceeding and other persons protecting their own (and another's) rights and legitimate interests. The practically useful results for criminalistics as an academic discipline should be improving the quality of future law enforcement practitioners' training and arousing the trainees' interest to the subject. The meaning of the pragmatism as a key direction of criminalistics' improvement is analyzed. Two following directions are specified in the article: 1) criminalistic recommendations should be brief and accessible to wide readership of lawyers, supported with a lot of schemes, algorithms and other software tools, including multimedia; 2) some scientists' proposals to include recommendations concerning proper preparation of procedural and other documents, first of all the most complex and important ones (e.g. resolution of bringing as an accused), into criminalistic elaborations (technical, tactical, methodical). Pragmatism as a direction of criminalistics' perspective development is socially caused by the demand of modern crime-fighting practice. This direction's implementation will allow to take step towards modernization, clarification of development paradigms not only of criminalistics, but also of other sciences of anti-criminal character.