Theoretical and Applied Foundations of Criminalistic Support for the Prevention of Crimes Against the Family and Minors

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of criminalistic support for the prevention of crimes against the family and minors. The author analyzes the historical prerequisites for the formation of the theory (doctrine) of criminalistic crime prevention, highlights controversial issues in the interpretation of terminology and content of this area of law enforcement. The purpose of the work is to define the concept and system of criminalistic support for the prevention of crimes against the family and minors in order to apply it. The methodological basis of the research is made up of general scientific and specific scientific methods: dialectical, formal logic (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction), historical, systemic, comparative research, hermeneutical, etc. Results: based on the analysis of the positions of individual scientists presented in criminalistic science and the conducted research, the author proposes his own vision of criminalistic support for the prevention of crimes against the family and minors, and also identifies the structural elements of such a system, including tasks, subjects of prevention, objects of preventive impact, as well as criminalistic situations and appropriate means, methods and technologies of criminalistic prevention. The article argues the need to modernize existing techniques for analyzing criminalistically significant information, to increase the professional training of law enforcement officers in this ar ea, to actively use information t echnology and to strengthen interagency cooperation in order to minimize recidivism and ensure effective protection of the rights and legitimate interests of the famil y and minors.