Although criminology is the discipline with the longest tradition in crime research, its history has had little to say about the place of scientific methods of crime evaluation, phenomenology and etiology. Criminalistics is oriented on evaluation and search of traces associated with a criminal act. Studies that have analyzed the history of scientific practices of criminal investigation have not come from the history of criminology. The history of criminology has analyzed neither the details of the scientific basis of the techniques nor whether they have actually worked. Such research has always come from the “sister” discipline: criminalistics, which can be defined as the science behind the recognition, collection, identification, and interpretation of traces and physical evidence, and the application of the natural sciences to legal science matters. This study is the partial result of the project implementation: “Centre of Excellence security research” (code ITMS: 26240120034 supported by the Research & Development Operational Programme funded by the ERDF).