Challenges of the Forensic and Criminal Investigation Terminology Project in Defining Terms from Identification Domain

Croatian vocational terminology project (Stmna), under the name of Forensic-Criminalistic Terminology is an ongoing project by the Croatian Science Foundation that started in April 2018 and is planned to end in October 2019. The project envisages the definition of 3000 terms from the areas such as crime scene investigation (CST), contemporary criminal theories and executive management, forensic processing of biological, chemical and physical traces, forensic ballistics and toolmark examination, dactyloscopy, forensic analysis of disputed documents and money, and mass disasters and mass graves. During the project, the authors met with numerous challenges in aligning and modernizing the terminology, and in this paper they will propose solutions to define the concepts of identification, classification and individualization, which are often used in forensic practice, but in a misleading and inappropriate context.