Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Process

Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Process, Faculty of Law National Aviation University, Professor of the "Tax Academy" in Novy Sad (Serbia), a member of the Union of Lawyers of Ukraine.
Candidate's dissertation on the theme « Problems of prophylaxis of offences of minor (on materials of Ukrainian SSR)» from speciality 12.00.08 defended in 1986 year. Also she defended doctor's degree on the theme «Crimes against civil, political and social laws and freedoms of man and citizen from the Criminal code of Ukraine (teoretical and egal research)» from speciality 12.00.08 in 2006 year.
Since 01.09.2011 heads the department of criminal right and process.
S.Y. Lihova is an author and coauthor of about 190 scientific and scientific methodological labours, which got confession not only in Ukraine but also after its limits. Repeatedly labours of S.Y. Lihova were printed abroad – in Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Serbia and in other countries. Among her scientific works is scientific practical comments to the Criminal code of Ukraine, textbooks from criminal right for Ukraine, train aids. Successfully carries out guidance dissertation researches from speciality 12.00.08 - criminal right and criminology; criminally executive right.
S.Y. Lihova is the member of editorial colleges of international scientific journals «Scientific world of Kazakhstan» and «Science and life of Kazakhstan» (Kazakhstan, Astana), and also «Ekonomika» (Serbia, Niches). She is a member of the specialized scientific advice in the National academy of internal affairs of Ukraine, senior research worker of Institute of study of problems of criminality of the National academy of legal sciences of Ukraine.
In 2006 S.Y. Lihova published monographic research «Crimes in the field of realization of civil, political laws and freedoms of man and citizen» (section of V of Special part of the Criminal code of Ukraine), in which she was the first who grounded position that the object of crimes are legal relationships.
An important achievement of scientific activity of S.Y. Lihova is the decision of scientific problem in relation to implementation of international norms and standards in industry of rights and freedoms of man and citizen into native legislation. S.Y. Lihova was the first in native science who developed the theoretical approaches to the reformation of criminal legal norms which are contained in the section of V of Special part of the Criminal code of Ukraine.
S.Y. Lihova set that the mechanism of the criminal and legal adjusting in relation to defence of rights and freedoms of man acts in three modes: to general regulative, general protective and special protective. Constitutional and legal relations the article of which are constitutional rights and freedoms of man and citizen in Ukraine needs to consider as the subject of mechanism of the criminal and legal adjusting.

Scientific works