In the 19th Century the results of the natural sciences – physics, chemistry –, the technical
achievements incorporated in the medical science, and made the medical science an intensive
progress. This article presents the scientific results, which have the largest relevance regard
the criminal law and which have a significant impact on the science of criminal law and its
affiliates.
The advance of medical science results the appearance on the one part the expansion of the
medical knowledge and medical tasks, on the other hand new offenses and new types of
evidence. The practical application of the results of medical research into the criminal
procedure (blood tests, DNA test, etc.) allows primary the faster detection in the investigative
stage of criminal proceedings, and the making of more reasonable judgments. On the territory
of psychiatry are very important the results of research of the state of consciousness, that
influence the offenders culpableness, because they give an answer to the question, in what
consciousness was the offender at the time of the crime.
This article submitted the most important correspondences of the medical science and
criminal law, and it is established, that the results of the medical science support the further
development of the criminal law and its affiliates.