Keywords
disinformation
criminal offense
operational and investigative activities
investigative (search) actions
legendary objects
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Abstract
The article reveals the concept and main features of forensic staging as a means of misleading during the control of the commission of a crime. The purpose of the study is to determine the features of the use of staging during the control of the commission of a crime. The meth-odological basis of the study is general scientific and special methods of cognition, in particular abstraction, comparative analysis, formal-legal method, modeling; method of system-structural analysis. The scientific novelty lies in the author’s comprehensive approach to defining the concept, tasks, admissibility, subjects, addressees and means of forensic staging. The author reveals the thesis that staging in criminal and forensic activities has many common features. That is why the study of the essence and content of the criminal allows us to reveal the content of forensic (operational and investigative) staging. The conclusions emphasize that staging is the activity of subjects according to a legend invented by them (for them), by which they understand a version that does not correspond to reality, is based on invented or partially distorted information, creates a false idea of a certain object (person, action, behavior, etc.), is used to hide the true goals, motives, role, character and content of the activity of the subject of legending and events that actually occur in reality. According to the results of the study, it is concluded that the main tasks of forensic staging are: identifying, revealing, stopping, preventing crimes that are being prepared or are in the process of being committed; ensuring the safety of persons who cooperate with law enforcement agencies on a confidential basis, or the employees of these agencies themselves; documenting the process of committing a criminal offense and the activities of law enforcement agencies to control the commission of a crime. The recipients of forensic staging are persons: 1) who lead an antisocial, immoral, illegal lifestyle; 2) prone to criminal behavior (potential criminals); 3) for whom there are reasons to believe that they intend, are preparing or are in the process of committing a criminal offense. The means of forensic staging are “psychological reagents”, which can be behavioral acts, messages, documents, material objects related to the event of the offense, as well as specially manufactured things and documents that fully or partially imitate the originals (imitation means), as well as specially created enterprises, institutions, organizations (legendary objects).
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