University Education and Training in Criminalistics and Forensic Sciences in Slovakia

Abstract

The authors in this study analyze the scope and content, including concepts of education and training in criminalistic and forensic sciences at the universities in Slovakia. After short analyses of the education system, they focus on the actual state and expected development in the near time after accreditation. They point to the need for scientific, university-based use of actual knowledge and its content as a way of classical and modern criminalistics and forensic theory and practice-oriented educational processes. The future of a much wider application in criminalistic and forensic practice and research outputs should decide on the education of criminalistics. The basis for this analysis is research and pre-research probe in Slovakia in this area. Detailed processing of knowledge was carried out within the research in the project "Methods and procedures for work at the crime scene", oriented to the main pillars for the future of university education in criminalistic and forensic sciences in Slovakia.