ON THE INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF CRIMINALISTIC SCIENCE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

The article considers the problems of innovative development of criminalistic science in the context of global digitalization. The unity of criminalistics as a science having its own subject, system, tasks, objects is emphasized. The concept of the theory of the information-computer support criminalistic activities theory is considered. A system of this criminalistic theory has been proposed, including the concept of theory of information-computer support for criminalistic activities; doctrine about computer crime; digital traces as sources of criminalistic significant computer information; on information-computer criminalistic models of types of computer crimes; criminalistic investigation of computer tools and systems; on information-computer criminalistic software for investigative and judicial actions; on information-computer criminalistic support of computer crime investigation techniques; on the digitalization of the system of criminalistic registration, including the reference and information funds of criminalistic and forensic expertise, including the relationship and delineation of the digitalization of criminalistic and forensic expertise; on information and computer criminalistic support of civil and administrative proceedings. The main directions of development for the theory of information-computer support of criminalistic activities and elements of its system are outlined.