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program is the need to take into consideration various complicated and mutually connected risk factors, as
well as needs, despite that the important elements of “constant worry” should be taken into consideration as
well. The cognitive-behavioral programs for treatment have shown to be most successful. These programs
are oriented towards behavior control, developing desired forms of behavior, developing social skills and
communication skills, developing new ways of thinking that are a source for the issues.
6.
CONCLUSION
The contribution of the criminal behavior psychology is logical because all people are not the same
in committing crime. They differ in the number and the type of criminal acts in which they participate, as
well as in the circumstances under which they act criminally. Actually, psychology is looking for the
variations of the individuals‟ criminal behavior. With everything portrayed in this paper we can see that the
psychology principles are applied to persons who commit criminal acts, beginning from the process of
discovering the truth, the police investigation, through legal proceedings and ending with the penal treatment
when the person is already convicted for the crime he committed. In all these actions, an individualization of
the criminal act principle is applied with which it is taken into consideration the person who commits the
crime and their mental state. In all these processes(of discovering, determination of the guilt, anticipation of
future behavior and a treatment), the psychology as a science leaves its print in understanding the criminal
behavior with which it contributes to enrichment and higher efficiency of the criminalistics as a science.
7.
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Internal Affairs College, Banja Luka University
THE INFLUENCE OF VODINELIĆ’S DOCTRINE ON MODERN
CRIMINALISTICS
Abstract
There is no doubt that the Vodinelić‟s doctrine was modern even in the time when he worked and
lived. However, it seems substantive even nowadays. His teachings on how to fix the information that can be
used as evidence, on the risk of delay and the information that can be used as evidence, on grounds of
suspicion and grounded suspicion, on the process of obtaining evidence - the only way to determine
disputable facts, as well as many others dating 30 years in the past, are equally important today. In addition,
the concept of prosecutorial investigation that is used nowadays is mostly based on these principles. And
there is more, the complete investigation depends on the correct understanding of the concept of grounded
suspicion because the investigation is initiated on the basis of having this initial stage of suspicion.
Criminalistics doctrine on fixing the information that can be used as evidence represents an important
theoretical concept since it elaborates the evidentiary nature of crime information. Vodinelić‟s study on the
discovery and clarification of the offense and the offender seems particularly important since it provides
answers to questions when the crime was uncovered
in a heuristic sense, and when it occurred in the criminal
sense. Proper understanding of this 25-year-old concept provides answers to many questions of the
contemporary criminal and criminal-justice practices, especially in terms of the relationship between the
police and prosecutors in the investigation. Also, it was Professor Vodinelić who wrote about contemporary
anti-crime methods 20 years ago. For example, his teachings on use of undercover investigators (especially
in terms of their responsibilities) can be used today as a strong argument, especially when we are faced with
new forms of crime (especially organized crime) that necessarily require this kind of criminal-justice
response. On the other hand, there is a question of today's level of development and presence of
criminalistics here, which, as it seems, is not at the satisfactory level. Two sets of problems are particularly
prevalent. Firstly, the nomenclature of scientific fields and sub-fields in the Republic of Srpska does not
provide a precise field or sub-field which criminalistics belongs to. Another problem refers to the present
concept of studying criminalistics. Here the issue is whether the current criminalistics contents are fit with
the criminal practice. So the problem primarily lies in the compatibility of content and practice. The paper
will try to answer some of these questions.
Keywords: Vodinelić, criminalistics, grounds for suspicion, clues, uncovering and clarification.
1.
INTRODUCTION
Professor Vladimir Vodinelic was a distinguished criminologist, whose scientific and expertise opus
has had a profound effect on criminalistics today (both as a science and a skill). Furthermore, he laid solid
foundations of contemporary criminalistics, its study contents and its influence on future generations of
criminologists. Special importance and quality of this approach lie in the fact that it treats criminalistics as a
unified whole, which has its own developed structure (technique, tactics and methodology), whose elements
are widely and equally developed but as an organic link of a whole (Vodinelić, 1985). In fact, this kind of
systematic approach enables methodical development of criminalistics as science.
In that regard, Vodinelić‟s concept of criminal event, criminal offense and various criminal-tactical
situations related to initial information in detecting a criminal offense is important (Vodinelić, 1990: 25-28).
Special attention is paid to the initial information on committed criminal offence, which is the basis for the
entire further procedure
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. Subsequently, the importance of the criminological rule on the plurality of
heuristic versions arises. Therefore, Vodinelić‟s classification is based on the knowledge that, from the
aspect of planning a detection activity, all criminal offenses can be divided into two major groups, i.e.
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At the beginning of an investigation, an investigator possesses, in most cases, a small amount of, often unclear information.
Orientation-eliminative indications which he obtained are often mutually unrelated, their mutual relation is unclear as well as their
relation to the criminal event and its (often unknown) cause. Consequently, the operative in this initial criminal-tactical situation
cannot (and must not) make any firm conclusions but he has to be governed by criminal-tactical principle of criticism and self-
criticism (skepticism) in regard to the criminal event which can be feigned or apparent, i.e. criminal offense (which is sometimes
feigned or apparent).