Abstract: Crimes connected with evidence tampering in civil and arbitration proceedings are not only widespread, but also highly latent. Judicial practice needs a system of scientifically grounded recommendations which could improve combating these criminal acts. The research subject is the detection, investigation and solution of crimes connected with evidence tampering in civil and arbitration proceedings. In this context, the purpose of this article is to define the key criteria of creating a system of criminalistic recommendations aimed at raising the effectiveness of the above mentioned areas of activity of law enforcement bodies officers. The authors use the general method of the reality cognition, and the system, formal-logical and sociological methods, analysis, synthesis, modeling and abstraction. Based on the analysis of judicial practice, the authors conclude that the criminalistic approach to the essence of the notion of evidence tampering (article 303 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) doesn’t conform with the aims and tasks of criminalistic studies. To be used for creating the appropriate criminalistic technique, this notion should be wider and should include several types of accompanying crimes: 1) against justice, 2) economic and corruption crimes, 3) crimes involving violence against the trial participants, 4) other crimes. Criminologically important peculiarities of the accompanying crimes should also be taken into account, such as the specificity of the situation, subjects and their goals, the typical lucrative impulse, etc. The authors formulate the criminologically significant definition of a group of crimes if this type and substantiate the reason for forming a specific criminalistic technique of investigating crimes connected with evidence tampering in civil and arbitration proceedings.

Abstract: Based on the analysis of theoretical and practical issues of the forensic prevention theory, the authors analyze the place of a rather new form, anti-crime prevention, therein. By analyzing the example of the creation and implementation of the fraud investigation method during the receipt of payments, the authors emphasize the need and demonstrate the process of creation of anti-crime education that has another structure and is completely different from the recommendations and guidelines for laywers as professional participants of the criminal procedure. The authors describe the process of creating an educational brochure and mobile application that would allow to overcome typical stereotypes of citizens about uncriminal nature, undedictability and unpunishability of particular socially dangerous offences. The authors conclude that there should be similar mobile applications of educative and anti-crime nature to be developed and implemented.