Department of Criminal Procedure, Criminalistics and Expertology was created in the year of 2019 after division of the Department of Criminal and Law Disciplines of the Faculty No. 6. The Head of the Department is the Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor Shcherbakovskyi Mykhailo Hryhorovych.

The lecturers of the Department conduct research in the following scientific areas:

- use of special knowledge in court proceedings;

- theoretical, methodological and procedural bases of forensic examinations;

- theoretical principles of conducting covert investigative (search) actions during the investigation of crimes;

- features of the investigation of economic crimes;

- investigation of corruption crimes;

- improvement of criminal procedure legislation;

- problems of adversarial proceedings in criminal proceedings.

The lecturers of the Department are scientific supervisors of two applicants for the scientific degree of Doctor of Law and five applicants for the scientific degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

The Department teaches 25 disciplines.

For students of the first level of higher education (bachelor's degree):

Specialty "Law"

Mandatory disciplines: Forensic science, Criminal process, Modern problems of criminal procedural law, Fundamentals of operational and investigative activities

Elective disciplines: Pre-trial investigation and trial of criminal cases, Methods of investigation of certain types of crimes, Directions of development of the science of criminal process, Directions of development of the science of forensic science, Directions of development of the science of the theory of operational and investigative activities, Directions of development of the science of forensic expertise, Organization and conduct of covert investigative (search) actions, Forensic expertise, Forensic medicine and psychiatry.

Specialty "Law enforcement activities"

Mandatory disciplines: Forensic science, Criminal process, Pre-medical training.

Elective subjects: Current problems of application of criminal procedural legislation, Use of special knowledge in criminal, civil and administrative proceedings, Pre-trial investigation and trial of criminal cases, Forensic means and methods of revealing and investigating criminal offenses, Comparative criminal process, Forensic expertology, Forensic medicine and psychiatry.

For students of the second level of higher education (master's degree)

Specialty "Law":

Compulsory subjects: Modern problems of criminal procedural law.

Elective subjects: Modern problems of criminalistics, Comparative criminal process,

Specialty "Law enforcement activities"

Compulsory subjects: Current problems of application of criminal procedural legislation, Tactics of individual investigative (search) actions, Modern problems of criminalistics.

Elective disciplines: Pre-trial investigation of illegal trafficking in weapons and narcotics, Use of special knowledge in criminal, civil and administrative proceedings, Forensic means and methods of revealing and investigating criminal offenses, Organization and conducting covert investigative (search) actions, Features of investigating certain types of criminal offenses, Comparative criminal process.

For students of the third level of higher education (postgraduate students) specialty "Law"

Elective disciplines: Directions of development of the science of forensics, Directions of development of the science of criminal process, Directions of development of the science of forensic expertise, Directions of development of the science of the theory of operational-search activities, Modern doctrines of forensic expertise, Modern doctrines of forensic science, Modern doctrines of criminal process, Modern doctrines of the theory of operational-search activities.

Contact information:

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Phone: 73-98-238

Address: L. Landau avenue, 27, Kharkiv, Ukraine