Publisher's Synopsis
In this final volume the authors introduce and defend the concept of judicial law, the scientific foundations of penal, sometimes call penitentiary, law, and theoretical issues of the forensic legal sciences (criminalistics, forensic expert examination, and the role of legal psychology, with some consideration of foreign doctrines and legislation. Reference is made in some detail to the role of legal psychology and its links with other branches of the legal sciences. Reports on the results of empirical studies enrich the volume. Considerable attention is given to the predictive functions of criminalistics. The debates which accompanied changes in Ukrainian court organization and the administration of penal institutions are illuminating.
