The research explores the scientific approach to the concept and essence of the forensic characteristics of crimes, the concept’s formation history, and also draws attention to the role and place of this scientific category in the theory of modern forensic science. The article emphasizes that the forensic characteristic, which is an independent element of a private forensic methodology for investigating crimes, is one of the basic concepts of forensic theory and practice. The author notes that the phrase “forensic characteristics of crimes” should be understood as an ordinary data system on the elements of certain types of crimes and their mechanisms. Concerning specific crimes, it is necessary to consider the issue of the forensic information system for a specific offence, which is reduced to the subject of the investigation. The article emphasizes the importance of the category of “forensic characteristics of a crime” for countering novel criminal offences, among which the author highlights cybercrime. There is no doubt that this concept of the forensic characteristics of crimes is capable of investigating the main practical goals, including new elements of criminal offences, along with the solution of scientific tasks for the disclosure, investigation and prevention of crimes. As a result, the author concludes that it is precisely the concept of the forensic characteristics of crimes formulated in the article that, along with the solution of scientific tasks for the disclosure, investigation and prevention of crimes, is capable of Вестник Инновационного Евразийского университета. 2020. № 2 ISSN 1729-536X 67 implementing tasks related to the main practical goals of the investigation, including new elements of criminal offences.

In recent years, the Republic of Kazakhstan has maintained an ambiguous criminal situation, and there is an increase in certain types of crimes, against the background of the overall positive dynamics of decline. Special attention of criminologists has recently been attracted to the study of crimes in the family and household sphere, and crimes committed in the sphere of religious and spiritual relations, since both of these types are showing increasing prevalence. Therefore, considering such an important institution as a «voluntary refusal», it would be advisable to consider them from the perspective of the offenses we have named, especially since countering them is one of the main directions of state criminal policy. In general, the study of the institution of voluntary refusal to commit an offense is based not only on coercive measures, but also on incentive measures, which means the opportunity to correct the behavior of the offender until the end of the illegal act. The purpose of this scientific article is to study the features of voluntary refusal to commit a criminal offense in crimes committed in the sphere of religious, spiritual and family-household relations, taking into account practice and making recommendations for improving regulations of a criminal nature. The leading methodological tools of the scientific article are dialectical, phenomenological, synergetic and systematic approaches of scientific cognition. Before proceeding to the analysis of the concept of voluntary refusal, it should be noted that the norms about it are far from perfect. There is no unambiguous understanding of the signs of voluntary refusal among scientists, which complicates law enforcement practice. One of the most important tasks of any scientific research is the development of scientific concepts. The consolidation of such concepts in legislation is an effective way to establish a uniform understanding of the norms, a clear idea of their content and, as a result, an increase in the effectiveness of the impact of criminal law in the process of legal regulation. However, these concepts themselves do not reflect reality like contemplation or representation, they are closer to the essence of the phenomenon. The article concludes that the essential features of the concept itself somewhat narrow the objective reality. But, at the same time, the correct identification of the main features in the concept is an important task of scientific research.

The bar as an institution of civil society ensures the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, guarantees fair justice. A lawyer has long been called a defender – who protects a person, his or her rights and legitimate interests. In the legal system of the Republic of Kazakhstan, attorney-client privilege is considered as a moral and ethical problem at the level of self-governing structures of the bar. The lack of sufficient scientific and theoretical research on the problems of attorney-client privilege, the uncertainty of the status of the bar both in the system of the Institute of defense and justice itself lead to the unsettled legal status of attorney-client privilege, which also determines the relevance of the topic of scientific research. The purpose of the study is a historical and legal analysis of the content of "attorney-client privilege"; identification of gaps in the legal regulation of the concept, content and guarantees of attorney-client privilege, taking into account the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and international legal acts in the field of human rights; identification of ways to solve problematic issues of ensuring attorney-client privilege. The methodological basis is a set of general scientific and philosophical methods that made it possible to disclose the subject of research and achieve the goal. The article substantiates a number of theses: attorney-client secrecy is considered on the basis of quantitative and qualitative methods of law analysis and a broad base of moral, ethical, historical and legal problems of protecting human and civil rights and freedoms; attorney-client secrecy and the problems of advocacy are considered in the system of social and, in particular, legal institutions as a process of institutionalization in general. In other words, the need for objective knowledge of public relations is actualized, the main element of which is legal relations, and a specific area is secrecy; the system of legal relations that arise in connection with the need to observe attorney-client confidentiality, the system of legal support of attorney-client confidentiality for the successful implementation of their activities by lawyers and to increase confidence in the lawyer in the state is analyzed.