THE NATURE OF FORENSICS

The object, tasks, functions, sources of forensics determine the domain of applicability of forensic knowledge, and at the same time, identify the correlation with other sciences involved in the process of ascertaining the crime and establishing the perpetrator.
The scientific work represents a historical analysis of the development process of forensics, the characteristics favoring its placement among the fundamental sciences are mentioned, so that forensics is kept among the main legal sciences subject to compulsory study in educational institutions with a legal profile, eliminating in this means the elements that diminish the role of forensics in the law enforcement activity and weaken it unjustifiably.