Textbook for law schools: Kazan, Kazan University Publishing House, 1999. 380 s. The training manual deals with the hardware and software of modern information technology in relation to legal activities. Considerable space is devoted to the discussion of information security and computer crime. A separate chapter is devoted to the description of the main statistical methods and application packages and their use in analytical activities . Particular attention is paid to the consideration of information systems, reference legal systems, analysis of results and prospects for their use in the practical work of law enforcement agencies .