THE METHOD OF CRIME AS PART OF HIS CRIMINAL CHARACTERISTIC Bessonov Alexei Alexandrovich, PhD at law, colonel of justice. <...> Place of employment: Saratov State Academy of Law, Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Kalmykia. <...> E-mail: bestallv@mail.ru Annotation: Based on the analysis developed in the forensics of different approaches to the concept of "the method of crime" author given his definition of scientific categories and indicates its importance to the criminal characteristic of crimes, as well as techniques for the formation of an investigation of certain types of crimes. <...> На основе анализа сложившихся в криминалистике разных подходов к понятию «способ преступления» автором дано своё определение этой научной категории и указано его значение для криминалистической характеристики преступлений, а также для формирования методик расследования отдельных видов преступлений! <...>