The modern problems of criminalistic education in Russian higher school are considered, attention is paid to the study of special issues of «computer forensics», since without this discipline the implementation of practical law enforcement in modern conditions is no longer effective. The author touches on the problems of conceptual and categorical apparatus, the correlation of the language of traditional and digital criminalistics and proposes ways to solve them.
Keywords: criminalistics, forensics education, computer forensics, digital forensics.