Criminalistic Study of Psychotechnology Application Skills

The work is devoted to the study of problems of application of psychotechnologies in criminal activity and investigation of offences. The general availability of knowledge about the types of psychotechnologies and ways of their application in modern conditions, the large-scale nature of the use of these technologies for criminal purposes, as well as for communicative counteraction to the investigation of crimes are noted. The main theoretical problems predetermining insufficient development of the considered subject in criminalistics are revealed. The problem of unpreparedness of investigators in many cases to psychological influence of interrogated persons is outlined. According to the results of the conducted research the emphasis is made on the necessity of closer attention to the forensic study of human mental qualities, improvement of forensic science provisions by means of development of questions on abilities and skills of application of psychotechnologies in criminal activity and for solving the tasks of criminal proceedings. In order to counteract psychological manipulations, it is proposed to study the investigated problematics in the process of training, for example, at the courses of advanced training of investigators, with the involvement of relevant specialists in this field of knowledge.