Investigative Knowledge as Object of Interdisciplinary Research
The paper is devoted to the current problems of theory and practice of cognitive activity of an investigating officer in the field of pre-trial criminal proceedings. The ideas expressed by the authors, the developed provisions and recommendations, characteristics and classifications concerning the subject, methods, means and technologies of the investigator's cognitive mission are based on empirically established regularities of two groups (categories). The first is the regularities of criminal and related types of legally significant behavior (activity), as well as the process of its reflection in the material environment. The second group is the laws underlying the organization and implementation of anti-criminal investigative activities in the stages of initiation of criminal proceedings and preliminary investigation. Attention is given to the issues concerning the relation of investigative knowledge and recognition, essence and mechanisms of these forms (directions) of professional activity of the investigating officer, as well as the problem of formation, interaction and recognition of mental images of the acts containing indicia of crimes. Along with this, the paper reflects the concept definitions of investigative cognition and investigative recognition formulated by the authors.