METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF DIGITALIZATION OF CRIMINALISTIC ACTIVITIES
Introduction. The article contains theoretical proposals for digitalization of forensic activities and optimization of preliminary investigation during the period of digital transformation of society. In the modern information society, a new digital information technology environment has been created, in which new types of cybercrimes are committed, and the investigation bodies have received numerous technological sources for the formation of digital traces of crimes, electronic media containing data on human activities in the preparation, commission and concealment of both general criminal and cybercrimes ... The subject of the research was information technology innovations and methodological proposals for improving the science of forensic science and changes in the structure of the discipline. The controversial nature of the views on the improvement of forensic science with the help of computer technology requires additional study of this issue. Aim: to propose the author's vision of the methodological foundations of digitalization of forensic activity with the justification of a new branch of technical and forensic activity, with synchronization with criminal procedure legislation, foreign experience and international legal norms Methods: the methodological basis of the study was a set of methods of scientific cognition, among which the leading place is occupied by the dialectical method. The article uses general scientific (dialectics, analysis and synthesis, abstraction and concretization) and specific scientific methods (comparative legal, technical and legal). Results: the proposed methodology for digitalization of forensic activity is considered as an additional set of methods of cognition in practical activities for the detection and investigation of crimes. The conclusion is formulated that digitalization is understood in a broad and narrow sense. Conclusions: The first direction of digitalization of all forensic activities is aimed at improving all sections, industries and areas through the use of computer technologies in traditional types of practical activities for the detection and investigation of crimes. The second direction of digitalization is associated with the development of a new branch of technical and forensic activity - "Forensic research of electronic media".