Abstract: The article concerns the elements of criminalistic characteristic features of unlawful hunting, which allow to establish necessary information on every particular crime due to their similarities: criminal behavior of offenders, circumstances and mechanisms of perpetrating and concealment of criminal act, character and gravity of damage.  Combination of various methods of unlawful hunting usually appear due to the influence of various external factors at the place of crimes as well as to specific features of personalities of offenders.  After the crime the poachers often take measures to conceal the crime, which complicates the process of proving guilt of an arrested offenders.  When deciding to violate the hunting rules, a person counts upon hidden character of his acts, absence of witnesses, and destruction of traces of crime.  It is shown that timely and professionally performed urgent investigative activities, such as the examination of the crime scene, interrogation, arrest, search and seizure, judicial expertise allow to establish the fact of unlawful hunting of a suspect and degree of his guilt, character and amount of material damage, causes and circumstances of the crime.

Abstract: For a long time study of papillary patterns was performed within the dactylography framework, and it often dealt with the issues of dermal glyphic studies  From 1996 on the forensic science started to use the term "forensic dermal glyphic studies" as a new vector in forensic teachings on traces. Based upon the analysis of scientific views the author offers a definition of forensic dermal glyphic studies, he also views the perspectives of its application in order to characterize the behavior of a suspect or an accused, to describe the look of an unknown person, to establish pathological characteristics of human bodies in the process of identifying an unclaimed dead body.  It is proven that the modern dermal glyphic methods allows to deal with the issues bordering psycho-physiological studies and psychiatry, and it allows to establish a new direction in forensic and medical dermal glyphic studies "psycho-dermal-glyphic studies". The psycho-dermal-glyphic analysis is aimed at diagnostics of deviant behavior.  This information may be of much value as the basic data for the versions, as well as for the tactical planning of the communication between an investigator and a suspect. 

Abstract: It is shown that currently the criminals legalize unlawfully obtained card via various falsifications in the sphere of registration, customs clearance and transfer of proprietary rights to a vehicle.  There are more and more cases when the automobiles are sold with fully counterfeit vehicle registration documents, as well as cases of unlawful changes in such documents.  The main means of counterfeiting are erasure, etching, washing, adding of information, drawing, and falce information is usually provided on the year when an automobile was produced, engine volume, date of registration, and date of registration closure. In cases when an automobile was used for personal needs, special marks are destroyed. The authors analyze the practice of assigning and holding judicial technical and forensic expertises of vehicle registration passports. Knowledge of these means of falcification is necessary when holding visual examination in the process of registration and verification of documents on the road by the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate officers, and it may be helpful for the buyers of vehicles.