ON THE PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COGNITIVE APPROACH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR FORENSIC ACTIVITIES УДК 343.98.06

Abstract

Recently, forensic scientists are increasingly talking about the shift of paradigmatic layers towards either a situational approach that has already become a scientific habit, or less studied methodological directions. The latter may include a cognitive approach.

The analysis of modern forensic research allows us to notice successful examples of appealing to some system-forming features of cognitive sciences, united by the idea of studying the possibilities of human thinking in its various manifestations, including various forms of cognition with subsequent processing and representation of information. Because working with information seems to be one of the main tasks of the subject of forensic activity.

The appeal to the cognitive direction in criminology continues the developments of the system-activity approach. However, the main place in this case is not given to the activity of the individual as such, but to the analysis of the individual himself in the course of his activity. And if the basic principle of the situational approach consists in knowing the situation and correcting one's behavior according to it, then the cognitive approach, determining the supra-situational level of perception of phenomena and events, involves correcting the situation itself or influencing the probability of its occurrence.