The monograph is devoted to the study of the history of forensic methods of investigating crimes and the theoretical foundations of the doctrine of them.The paper describes in detail the genesis of methods for investigating crimes, the evolution of their structure and approaches to construction, carried out scientific and practical systematization of these methods, a modern typical structure of typical private forensic methods and approaches to structuring group forensic methods have been developed, the main directions for the development of the system of forensic methods, ways and prospects for using programming capabilities in their creation, and issues of improving the educational process in forensic science have been raised.The book is intended for scientific and practical workers, teachers of legal disciplines of the criminal law cycle, students, cadets, listeners, graduate students, adjuncts of legal educational institutions, as well as all those interested in these problems.