Abstract
This article is devoted to the problem of criminalistics teaching in Ukraine. Because of this, authors decided to demonstrate historical development of criminalistics. In this part of the article it was showed problems of criminalistics emergence in Ukraine and other countries from 19th century. Special attention was paid to the decisions of Congresses of International Criminalistic Union (1895, 1913), and Hans Gross’ and F. von Liszt’ influences to it. After this historical event, attention was paid to Criminalistics development in Ukraine in different periods: publishing books and textbook on forensic medicine (N. S. Bokarius, N. N. Bokarius)
and criminalistics (V. Kolmakov. V. Lisichenko, V. Shepitko, etc.); including Criminalistics to the curriculum as a teaching course; foundation Expert and Criminalistics institutions (now– Professor Emeritus N.S. Bokarius Kharkiv Research Institute of Forensic Examination; Criminalistics Department of Yaroslav the Wise National Law University, INGO “Criminalists
Congress”, etc). Also authors gave information about criminalistics teaching in modern academic programs in two different ways: 1) as extra-university legal education: a) through preparatory and introduction courses prior to proper legal education; b) through post-graduate (special) education providing courses in both general, and specific problems of criminalistics, subject to the needs of a particular legal profession; 2) in the context of “Bachelor’s” and “Master’s” programs.
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