Ufa Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
Ufa Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Ufa, Russia, melia180955@mail.ru (Department of Criminal Procedure, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure)
Ufa Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, (ugolovnogo processa, docent)
Ufa, Russian Federation
UDK 343.14 Доказательства и их представление в уголовном судопроизводстве
The study is devoted to the problem of understanding evidence in modern criminal proceedings in connection with the digitalization of society and increasing the efficiency of the activities of officials carrying out evidence in criminal cases, crimes committed using digital technologies. In the introductory part, based on the information provided, the relevance of the selected topic is indicated. The author noted that the existing differences in the definition of the nature of evidence on the part of scientists have left a certain imprint not only on the ideas about evidence among practitioners, but also on the state of criminal procedure legislation. The content of the work is the study of the concept of “evidence” in the context of interdisciplinary research (information, systems, management). The final part of the article summarizes results, formulates conclusions about the place of criminal procedural evidence in a unified system of criminal procedural evidence, and gives their author’s definition.
evidence, criminal procedural evidence, “electronic” evidence, sources of evidence, theory of knowledge, law of the inverse relationship between volume and content, interdisciplinary approach
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