Focus and Scope

Scientific support of the legislative process, the law enforcement practice in the state, disclosure of legal issues and related Sciences and their role in the improvement of law enforcement.

 

Journal Scope:

COMBATING CRIMES: THEORY AND PRACTICE

LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES

LEGAL REGULATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF LEGAL SCIENCE

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

REVIEWS

Peer Review Process

Review procedure involves checking for plagiarism, verification of compliance the article title and content, check the content of the article (more detail).

1. Deadline 5–10 days.

2. Once you submit your article, it will be sent for review. Our editorial staff is practicing a double-blind peer review.

3. Get response from reviewers. If adjustment is then necessary to take them into account, and return an email.

4. If no adjustments or fixed all the comments made by the reviewers, the article goes on editing.

 

  • All the manuscripts are first reviewed by editors to assess their relevance to the subject and requirements of the journal.
  • After the editors' decision, the submitted manuscripts are sent to two experts who are specialists in the relevant field. The manuscript is blindly reviewed (the author and reviewer do not know each other).

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Periodicity

4 times a year

Editorial board

Editor-in-chief – Cherniei Volodymyr, Doctor of Law, Professor, Rector of National Academy of Internal Affairs;

Deputy editor-in-chief – Husarev Stanislav, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, First Deputy Rector of National Academy of Internal Affairs;

Deputy editor-in-chief – Cherniavskyi Serhii, Doctor of Law, Professor, Merited Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Deputy Rector of National Academy of Internal Affairs;

Executive editor – Loshytskyi Mykhailo, Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of Administrative Law and Process Department of National Academy of Internal Affairs.

Editorial board members:

Bychkova Svitlana– Doctor of Law, Professor (National Academy of Internal Affairs);

Vasylevych Vitalii – Doctor of Philosophy (in Law), Professor (National Academy of Internal Affairs);

Vidatski Yan – Doctor of Philosophy (in Law), Professor (Academy of Andrzej Frycha Modzhevsky, Republic of Poland);

Dzhuzha Oleksandr –  Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine (National Academy of Internal Affairs);

Drozd Oleksii – Doctor of Law, Associate Professor (National Academy of Internal Affairs);

 

Dudorov Oleksandr – Doctor of Law, Professor, Merited Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine (Zaporizhia National University);

Karp Simion – Doctor of Law (Academia «Stefan Cel Mare» MIA of the Republic of Moldova, Republic of Moldova);

Kolb Oleksandr – Doctor of Law, Professor (National Academy of Internal Affairs);

Kolodii Anatolii – Doctor of Law, Professor, Member-correspondent of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine (Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman);

Kostytskyi Mykhailo – Doctor of Law, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Member-correspondent of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine(National Academy of Internal Affairs);

Kuzmenko Oksana – Doctor of Law, Professor (National Academy of Internal Affairs);

Lukianchykov Yevhen – Doctor of Law, Professor (National Technical University of Ukraine «Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute»);

Nykyforchuk Dmytro – Doctor of Law, Professor (National Academy of Internal Affairs);

Orlov Yurii – Doctor of Law, Senior Research Fellow (National Academy of Internal Affairs);

Pohoretskyi Mykola – Doctor of Law, Professor, Merited Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine (Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University);

Savchenko Andrii – Doctor of Law, Professor (National Academy of Internal Affairs);

Udalova Larysa – Doctor of Law, Professor, Merited Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine (National Academy of Internal Affairs);

Shakun Vasyl – Doctor of Law, Professor,Academician of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Merited Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine (National Academy of Internal Affairs).

Ethics of publications and cooperation with authors

Scientific periodical accumulates results of research carried out in Ukrainian and foreign scientific institutions and higher educational establishments and brought to readers’ attention.  

Submitted manuscripts are published only after undergoing the reviewing procedure successfully (originality, timeliness of the topic, scientific relevancy and significance).

 

Editorial responsibility and commitments of National Academy of Internal Affairs:

Editorial Board is responsible for article publishing approval with due account for originality, timeliness of the topic, and scientific relevancy of the submitted material.

Editorial Board of Scientific periodical «Scientific Journal of National Academy of Internal Affairs»:

– selects manuscripts for publishing;

– monitors the scientific relevancy level of published material;

– ensures observance of transparency and impartiality principles with respect to the chosen topic coverage and related methodology;

– prevents any discreditation of intellectual standards;

– provides all necessary clarifications, recommendations and comments on format and content of submitted material with right to return the material for author’s updating.

 

Authors:

– bear full responsibility for authenticity of submitted material, accuracy of presented quotations, statistical data, proper names, illustrative materials, and other violations and infringements under current Ukrainian legislation;

– eliminate all defects in the material (text of the article) in accordance with editorial board and reviewers’ comments;

– avoid entitling third parties to articles submission and publication.

Failure to meet the abovementioned requirements will result in publication denial. Any proof of plagiarism detected by the editorial board is an absolute reason for article rejection.

All manuscripts submitted for publication in must comply with the formatting requirements «Scientific Journal of National Academy of Internal Affairs». Editorial board is responsible for regular updating of the posted formatting requirements.

Author of the manuscript (article) ensures that:

1) its content is authentic and  contains outsourced data only followed by relevant references or subjected to prior approval;

2) manuscripts (articles) are/were not submitted/published in other periodicals;

3) manuscripts (articles) are original or present original interpretation of any studied issue/topic/theory/hypothesis – compilations or adaptations of previously published articles is not acceptable;

4) manuscripts (articles) contain no data which is defined as confidential by current Ukrainian legislation or, if published, result in disclosure of data defined as confidential by current Ukrainian legislation;

5) names of all authoring team members are indicated in the manuscript (article) with no third persons included; all members of  authoring team were presented the final version of the article and gave consent for publication.

Editorial Board is entitled to post the articles published articles of a scientific journal on the Journal's website, the Academy's webportal, the repository, and also on the website of the V. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.

All manuscripts (articles) are published free of charge.

Sponsors

National Academy of Internal Affairs

Journal History

Founded in 1996 (State Registration Certificate КВ No. 19326-9126 PR of August 13, 2012)

Included into the List of Specialized Legal Scientific Periodicals of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MES Decree No. 1528 of December 29, 2014)

Awarded with the title «The Best MIA Scientific Periodical»

Frequency in the nomination «Scientific periodicals» (2011)

Periodicity: Four times a year

Language of publication: Ukrainian, Russian, English

Editor-in-chief – Volodymyr Cherniei, Doctor of Law, Professor, Rector of National Academy of Internal Affairs

Deputy editor-in-chief – Husarev Stanislav, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, First Deputy Rector of National Academy of Internal Affairs

Deputy editor-in-chief – Serhii Cherniavskyi, Cherniavskyi Serhii, Doctor of Law, Professor, Merited Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Deputy Rector of National Academy of Internal Affairs

Executive editor – Mykhailo Loshytskyi, Doctor of Law, Professor of Administrative Law and Process Department, National Academy of Internal Affairs