The doctrine of forensic activities digitalization and the problems of forensic didactics

The global digitalization in all spheres of human activity has seriously affected the problems of using special knowledge when collecting and examining evidence in criminal, civil and administrative cases, and especially forensic activities. Purpose: to develop a methodology for forensic examination of criminally significant computer information in the context of forensic activities digitalization. Methods: methods of dialectical and formal logic, comparison, description, interpretation, special scientific methods of forensic expertology and the theory of information and computer support for forensic activities. Results: the author develops the fundamentals of the forensic activity digitalization theory, the subject and objects of the theory, the main directions of the theory development, including the study of the types and forms of digital footprints in various types of forensic examinations; solving problems of integration in the production of forensic examinations in the context of digitalization; solving the problems of digitalization, unification and statutory regulation of reference and information collections and databases of forensic objects.