The article analyzes the current state of criminal activity and the corresponding needs of judicial and law enforcement agencies to provide necessary counteraction. Based on the conducted sociological research, generalization of statistical data, correlations were revealed between the needs of the practice of countering certain types of criminal offenses and the available proposals of authorized subjects on scientific and methodological support for crime investigation activities. It has been established that in general, the existing scientific and methodological support for countering certain types of criminal offenses meets the requirements of law enforcement practice regarding methods of investigating crimes. Along with this, it is proved that judicial and law enforcement agencies now need modern methods of investigating crimes against the foundations of national security and crimes against the environment. Taking into account the identified relationships, the function of forensic sciences has been proposed in order to introduce scientific developments and practical forensic recommendations for the investigation of certain types of criminal offenses into the educational process, the directions for implementing this task have been outlined.