The main disciplines which are taught by the Department:
Criminal Law (OPD.F.11), Criminal Proceedings (OPD.F. 12), Forensics (OPD.F. 13), Criminology (OPD.F.22), Law Enforcement Agencies (OPD.F. 23). Penal Law (OPD.NP.01), Prosecutor’s Supervision (OPD.NR.06), Criminal Law of foreign countries (DS.03.01), Expertology (DS.03.02), Forensic Medicine (DS.03.03), Forensic Psychiatry (DS.03.03), Law Studies (for students of non-law qualifications).

Department of Criminal Law Disciplines comprises an outstanding scientific and pedagogical potential. 99% employees have scientific degree of a doctor or a candidate of law, many of them conduct practical activities and work in the bodies of power and law enforcement structures.


Professors and lecturers of the Chair have elaborated educational programmes on the subjects and the professors and lecturers of the Chair published textbooks for institutions of higher education on : “Criminal law. General Part”, “Criminal Law. Special Part” ed.by V.I. Radchenko, A.S. Mikhlin; “Criminal Law. General Part”, “Criminal Law. Special Part” ed. by A.S. Mikhlin; “Criminology” ed.by V.D. Malkov, “Penal Law” ed. by A.S. Mikhlin; “Law Enforcement bodies” ed. by N.A. Petukhov and G.I. Zagorsky, “Law Studies”, Commentaries to Criminal Proceedings Code of the Russian Federation and to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Practicum on Criminal Law ed. by A.S. Mikhlin, Compilations of the applicable rulings of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR, the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR and the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and others.

Students of criminal law specialization execute diploma and course papers on the following issues: criminal liability for specific types of crimes according to the laws of Russia and foreign countries (such as murder, legalization (money laundering) of the proceeds, acquired illegally, theft, robbery, banditism, illegal drug trafficking; arms trafficking, terrorism, corruption, crimes in the sphere of economic activities and etc); peculiarities of application of specific types of punishment in Russia and foreign countries (fine, deprivation of liberty for a limited period of time, life imprisonment); criminal law issues of accompliceship in crime, theories about the subject of the crime and etc.