Hiding crime and punishing power

Abstract

Learning the past will acquire a procedural significance when some real event of the past would trigger legal consequences. In addition to criminal cases this can be realized in civil litigation, in administrative procedures of the public power, but examples can also be taken from the field of labour law. As criminalistics represent the science of reconstructing a past event, an extension of it to all legal fields can be reasoned. However, such a turn does not have taken place, the discipline of investigation remained within the sphere of criminal sciences. The article examines the causes of that.