Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Process

Doctor of Law, professor, head of the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Faculty of Law of the National Aviation University, professor of the «Tax Academy» in Novi Sad (Serbia), member of the Union of Lawyers of Ukraine.

In 1986, she defended her candidate's thesis «Problems of juvenile delinquency prevention (based on the materials of the Ukrainian SSR)» in the specialty 12.00.08. Doctoral thesis – «Crimes against civil, political and social rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen according to the Criminal Code of Ukraine (theoretical and legal research)» by specialty 12.00.08 in 2006.

Since September 1, 2011, he heads the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure. S. Lykhova is the author and co-author of about 400 scientific and educational-methodological works, which have received recognition not only in Ukraine, but also abroad. The works of S. Lykhova was published abroad - in Poland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Azerbaijan, Slovenia and other countries. Among the scientific works of S. Lykhova – scientific and practical comments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine, textbooks on the criminal law of Ukraine, training aids. Successfully supervises dissertation research in the specialty 081 Law.

S. Lykhova is a member of the editorial boards of the international scientific journals «Science World of Kazakhstan» and «Science and Life of Kazakhstan» (Kazakhstan, Astana), as well as «Economy» (Serbia, Nis). Member of the editorial board of the foreign peer-reviewed scientific publication of the Serbian Association of Criminal Law Theory and Practice since 2021 and member of the editorial board of the foreign peer-reviewed scientific publication International scholarly journal «Herald of Law» (Tbilisi, Georgia) since 2022.

In 2006, S. Lykhova published a monographic study «Crimes in the sphere of realization of civil, political rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen» (Chapter V of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), in which she first substantiated the proposition that the object of crimes is legal relations. An important achievement of the scientific activity of S. Lykhova is the solution to the scientific problem of the implementation of international norms and standards in the field of human and citizen rights and freedoms into domestic legislation. S. For the first time in domestic science, Lykhova developed theoretical approaches to the reform of criminal law norms contained in Chapter V of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. S. Lykhova established that the mechanism of criminal law regulation regarding the protection of human rights and freedoms operates in three regimes: general regulatory, general security and special security.

Scientific works