Regulations of the Department

History of the Department

The Department of Criminal Law and Procedure was created in accordance with the rector's order dated March 17, 2003 No. 37/0 as a structural subdivision of the Law Institute.

The department operates on the basis of the Regulation on the Department of Criminal Law and Process in accordance with the Regulation on the Quality Management System.

The Department of Criminal Law and Process was founded with the purpose of organizing and carrying out educational and methodological work in criminal law disciplines, educational work among students, scientific research on criminal law, criminal process, criminology, criminology, training and advanced training of scientific and pedagogical workers.

Since 2011, Professor Lykhova Sofiya Yakivna has been the head of the Department of Jurisprudence.

The teaching staff of the department teaches leading legal disciplines that provide fundamental legal knowledge in the field of criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminal executive law, notary, advocacy, prosecutor's office, criminology, the basics of forensic examinations, criminal liability in the medical field, criminological prevention crimes, the method of drafting documents in criminal proceedings.

The Department of Criminal Law and Procedure provides teaching of 37 educational disciplines of the educational and qualification level «Bachelor» and «Master» in the specialty 081 «Law» of the OPP «Legal Science» and specialty 262 «Law enforcement activity» of the OPP «Law Enforcement Activity», the latter department is a graduate.

The department organizes professional practice and legal practice for students in the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, in the territorial administration of the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine in the city of Kyiv, in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, in

State institution «Probation Center», in the Department for Execution of Criminal Punishments, in the Department of the Border Service of the International Airport «Kyiv» named after I. Sikorsky, in the communal enterprise «Kyiv» International Airport (Zhulyany), in the public organization «All-Ukrainian Center for Combating Corruption and assistance to law enforcement agencies «Anti-corruption initiative»» in accordance with concluded bilateral agreements.

Help in mastering the legal profession is provided by scientific and pedagogical staff of the department when conducting role-playing games on educational disciplines in the Courtroom, which is modeled after real courtrooms in the courts of Ukraine and in the educational and scientific forensic laboratory.

Scientific and pedagogical personnel of the Department of Criminal Law and Process:

Lykhova Sofia – doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department;

Panova Oksana – doctor of Law, Professor, professor of the department;

 Litvinova Irina – PhD, associate professor, associate professor of the department;

 Lantsedova Julia – PhD, associate professor, associate professor of the department;

 Lysko Tatyana – PhD, associate professor of the department;

 Rastorguyev Alexander - senior lecturer of the department;

Maistro Diana – assistant of the department.

Priority areas of scientific work of the Department of Criminal Law and Process

One of the priority directions of the scientific work of the Department of Criminal Law and Process is the work on the state budget topic "Peculiarities of combating crime at the current stage of the development of Ukrainian statehood" No. 39-2022/13.01.03, term of work 01.09.2022 - 30.06.2025, supervisor Doctor of Law, professor Lykhova S.

The purpose and purpose of the NDR "Features of combating crime at the current stage of the development of Ukrainian statehood". The Constitution of Ukraine sets the state the task of ensuring public safety of society, proper law and order, guaranteed protection by legal means of the constitutional rights and interests of citizens, state organizations and institutions, public organizations, and all private structures. One of the factors that pose a serious threat to a developing state is crime as a relatively massive phenomenon consisting of a set of acts prescribed by criminal laws, committed in one or another territory over a certain period of time.

Challenges to martial law in Ukraine have given rise to a new wave of crime. Thus, the problem of countering crime began to occupy a special place in the formation of Ukrainian statehood in today's conditions, the creation of which is impossible without ensuring an active offensive counteraction to crime and achieving a slowdown in the rate of its growth on the basis of clearly defined priorities, a gradual increase in the efforts of the state and the public, improvement of legislation, organization of means and methods of crime prevention and detection.

Currently, there is a real need for the development of scientifically based recommendations for the adoption of new norms of the criminal material and procedural law regarding combating crime.

Main tasks:

1) research the content and main directions of modern crime prevention activities;
2) determine the current state of legal protection against crime and outline directions for its improvement in the future;
3) characterize the practice of implementation of law enforcement mechanisms to combat crime in the activities of courts and law enforcement agencies;
4) to formulate recommendations aimed at improving the theoretical and legal principles and practice of functioning of the crime prevention mechanism;
5) analyze state programming and regional planning of measures to combat crime in Ukraine;
6) research of criminological and criminal law innovations in the field of combating crime;
7) preparation of materials for a collection of works with proposals for improving criminal legislation and the activities of law enforcement and law enforcement agencies with the aim of harmonizing their activities with European standards in the field of combating crime;
8) providing proposals and recommendations on improving criminal legislation and legislation regulating the functioning of law enforcement agencies and the court in order to optimize them and bring them into line with European standards.

The list of academic disciplines of the Department of Criminal Law and Process

1. Organization of judicial and law enforcement bodies
2. Advocacy and notary in Ukraine
3. Criminal law of Ukraine
4. Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine
5. Criminological prevention of offenses in the field of aviation
6. Combating domestic violence in Ukraine
7. Combating crime in Ukraine
8. Forensics
9. Criminal procedural law of Ukraine
10. Anti-corruption activities of law enforcement agencies
11. Comparative criminal law
12. Theoretical bases of qualification of criminal offenses
13. Criminology
14. Forensic medicine and psychiatry
15. The use of modern information technologies in operational and investigative activities
16. Current issues of criminal law
17. Operational investigative activity
18. Compilation of procedural documents
19. Criminal law protection of information in the aviation sector
20. Special equipment
21. Organization of work of pre-trial investigation units
22. Theory of evidence
23. Basics of information and analytical provision of law enforcement activities
24. Actual problems of police activity
25. Criminal legal means of protection of family legal relations
26. Tactical special training
27. Fire and tactical special training
28. Prevention of criminal offenses in the field of aviation computer security
29. Pedagogy and psychology in law enforcement activities
30. Criminalistics
31. Criminology
32. Forensic medicine and psychiatry
33. Criminal law of Ukraine
34. Prosecution of Ukraine
35. Organization of juridical and Law EA
36. Advocacy and Notary Service in Ukraine
37. Criminal procedural law of Ukraine

List of scientific papers of the employees of the Department of Criminal Law and Process (download)

Scientific groups of the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure:

Scientific group "Actual problems of criminal procedure"
Head:
Lantsedova Julia - Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department.

Scientific group "Modern Criminal Law of Ukraine"
Leader:
 Lysko Tetyana - Candidate of Law, Associate Professor of the Department.