Name of Lecturer: Prof. dr. Saulius Arlauskas tfk@mruni.lt

New Technologies of Crime Investigation
Name of Lecturer: prof. dr. Egidijus Vidmantas Kurapka, prof. dr. Eglė Bilevičiūtė,
Faculty: Law Faculty
Department, Contact Details: Department of Criminal Procedure and Department of
Administrative Law & Procedure, tel: +370 5 2714639, eglek@mruni.lt
Language of instruction: English
Level of Course Unit: Bachelor, Master
Year of Study (if applicable): not applicable
Required prerequisites: none
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit 1 . A student will know/will be able to
operate the received knowledge and practical skills in criminal investigation activities,
to implement different forensic techniques on crime scenes and during criminal
investigation. Students will be able to use received knowledge in practical work of
forensic expert or detective.
ECTS credits: 6
Contact hours per week: 3
Semester: Spring
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: lectures, seminars, practical
exercises, self-contained work
Assessment methods and Criteria: Exam (essay, test or oral exam (presentation)).
Exam – 50 % of final grade, class work (practical exercises during practical seminar)
– 50 %.
Course content: The main goal of subject is to teach students to have special
criminalistics theoretical knowledge and practical skills, which allows better
understand crimes investigation process through studying and having practical work.
The students will find out how to use methods and means of the criminalistics tactic
and methodology for investigation process and for solving crimes, how investigator
can use different criminalistic records, databases and information systems in
investigation process. New technologies of criminalistics tactics, both the modern
technologies of forensic examination, criminalistics methodology methods for
investigation of crimes: an introduction to criminalistics science, an introduction to
criminalistics tactic – conception of the criminalistics tactic, its structure, some
planning’s aspects of the crimes investigation, some tactics aspects of the
performance of the crimes investigations action, investigation of crime scene; an
introduction to the criminalistics methodology – conception of the criminalistics
methodology, its structure, conception of the criminalistics characteristic of the crime
(modus operandi), investigations methodology of murder, robbery, bribery and other
types of crime; basics of criminalistic registration and criminalistic information
systems: main principles of criminalistic registration, work with automated fingerprint
identification system, ballistics automated identification system, DNA database and
others different criminalistic systems, their structure, purposes, role in the crime
investigation, Lithuanian criminalistic information system.
Student will have an opportunity to visit different forensic institutions (for example,
the Lithuanian Forensic Science Centre, Lithuanian Police Criminal Investigation
Centre, State Forensic Medicine Service, to acquaint with practical work of
investigators and forensic scientists.
1 Knowledge, skills, competences that students can demonstrate/acquires during the course
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