Criminalistic characteristic of crimes: problem of structuring

Any development of the private methods of inquest and relies on an array of information, selected on basis of scientific generalization investigative and judicial practices. In criminalistics the role of the centre of such information about crimes performs scientific category «criminalistic characteristic of the crime». Based on a study of the various opinions of scientists about the structure of criminalistic characteristic the author substantiates own position, which denies the possibility to establish a single list of elements criminalistic characteristic for any crimes.