The aim:
1. Familiarizing students with criminology, which is an important element of broadly understood criminal law, especially procedural law. In this system, forensics is used to conduct evidentiary activities and evaluate evidence in order to establish the facts that are the basis for decisions in criminal and civil proceedings.
2. To familiarize students with the methodology of conduct when performing activities in the field of forensic techniques and tactics. The tasks of this discipline of law also include showing the implementation of the most modern methods of revealing and securing forensic traces into everyday practice, as well as pointing out the interdisciplinary nature of this science, which also adapts the achievements of other fields of knowledge.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Student has knowledge of regulations regarding criminal law and criminal procedure, as well as other auxiliary sciences that are extremely useful in the process of applying the law.

Acquired skills:
1. Student classifies and presents individual methods and means used in the evidentiary process. For this purpose, he uses the relationships between legal, social and cultural phenomena, and is able to analyze them critically and formulate his own opinions.
2. Student is able to apply theoretical knowledge and access information collected in databases, and also finds and uses relevant case law. The above information, data and judgments can be used to analyze and describe legal phenomena in the area of ​​fighting crime.
3. Based on the collected data (obtaining information using various sources), also taking into account the interconnections between legal phenomena and taking into account the literature, the student is able to formulate conclusions based on the current situation as well as formulate recommendations for the future.

Acquired social skills:
1. Student understands and evaluates – also critically – legislation as well as practice in relation to the command process. Is aware of being responsible for the decisions made in practical legal problems. Recognizes the ethical, economic and political implications of the legal system.
2. Student is aware of the multi-aspect nature and interdisciplinarity of law, therefore he is prepared and able to independently supplement his knowledge and skills. This makes him an active person, critical in thinking, but also sensitive to social problems.
3. Student independently notices the ethical, economic and political conditions embedded in the legal system. He has basic competences to see the multi-aspect connections of various problems with law, and is able to use and supplement interdisciplinary knowledge.

Course contents: 
1. The concept of a trace. Division of forensic traces. Functions of forensic traces. Revealing and securing forensic traces.
2. History of Crime Studies. The contemporary image of crime science through the prism of forensic reports.
3. Expert and his opinion.
4. Inspection of the scene of the incident as a procedural and forensic activity.
5. Documentation of inspection activities.
6. Fingerprint expertise.
7. Fingerprint traces – structure, characteristic features.
8. Handwriting research. Collecting comparative material for literary research.
9. Technical examination of documents.
10. The issue of searching for corpses.
11. Crimes against monuments and works of art.

Recommended reading: 
1. Criminalistics, an Introduction to Forensic Science, Richard Saferstein, Pearson. 2015
2. Forensic Science. An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques., Stuart H. James, Jon J. Nordby, Taylor and Francis. 2000.

Additional reading: 
1. Kryminalistyka, Jan Widacki, C. H. Beck. Warszawa 2012.
2. Kryminalistyka, Brunon Holyst, Lexis Nexis. Warszawa 2010.