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Criminalistic profile of offenses in the provision of legal aid

Kristina Romanauskas

Ukraine

Abstract

Thorough investigation of criminal offenses in the context of legal aid provision demands a systemic understanding of their nature, mechanisms, and criminalistic and legal traits. These offenses pose particular challenges as they target not only legal professionals but also the legal systems that protect them—specifically, the principles of independence, inviolability, confidentiality, and adversarial process. This article examines how crime profiling can serve as a tool to detect latent risks, develop investigative hypotheses, and improve pretrial tactics. The author identifies key elements of this profile: offender traits, victim characteristics, crime scene context and modus operandi, and both physical and intangible traces. Taken together, these elements enable construction of a holistic criminalistic model to respond to threats within the legal profession. The paper emphasizes the need for further research to refine indicators of emerging forms of interference in legal practice.

Keywords: criminal proceedings situation forensic characteristics justice crime place of commission time of crime commission

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Romanauskas K. Criminalistic profile of offenses in the provision of legal aid. Archives of Criminology and Forensic Sciences. 2025. Т. 11, № 1. С. 118–127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32353/acfs.11.2025.08.
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