Leonenko Tetyana Evgenivna

Leonenko Tetyana Evgenivna

Position

D.Sc. (Law), Professor, Head of the Department of Criminal, Civil and International Law

Academic degree

Doctor of Law

Academic title

Professor

Education

higher

1999 Zaporizhia State University, specialty: Law, qualification as a lawyer.

Subjects taught

  • Criminal law;
  • Criminology.

Main languages of communication

Ukrainian (fluent), English (fluent).

Theses:

  • • Candidate's thesis in the specialty 12.00.08–criminal law and criminology; criminal enforcement law. Topic: «Insignificance of an act under the criminal legislation of Ukraine». Year of defense – 2003.

  • • Doctoral dissertation in the specialty 12.00.08 – criminal law and criminology; criminal enforcement law. Topic: «Crime on religious grounds: phenomenon, determination, prevention.» Year of defense – 2015.

Scientific interests:

  • • criminal law

  • • criminology

  • • legal psychology

Scientist accounts:

  • Scientist account (ORCID): 0000-0001-8466-7192

  • Scientist account (Publons / Web of Science ResearcherID): http://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000740758500013

  • Scientist account (Scopus): 57215027745

  • Scholar account (GoogleScholar): bI4vhu8AAAAJ

Advanced training:

  • • National Academy of Management, certificate of advanced training, topic: «Methodology of investigating criminal offenses motivated by religious hatred or enmity», 12.10.2014.

  • • From July 8, 2019 to July 12, 2019 at the Guspol Academy (Czech Republic) on the topic: «Education in the European Union» for 108 hours.

  • • Internship Slovenia, Scientific and pedagogical internship «Legal education in modern university: project-based approach to the work organization according to the guidelines of the European qualifications framework (experience of the pan-European university)», Slovak Republic, March 22-24 2017.

  • • Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs. Certificate of advanced training of a scientific and practical worker in specialty 262 «Law enforcement activities», 2018.

  • • Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, specialty: Law, 2024.

  • • Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, specialty: Law enforcement, 2024.

  • • Received a certificate from MadisonInternationalInstitute&BusinessSchool, which confirms a sufficiently high level (at level B2) of proficiency in a foreign language (English), in 2018.

Total scientific papers:

  • • 160, including 5 monographs: 1 individual, 4 collective; 1 textbook, 3 articles in publications indexed in the Scopus scientometric database.

Participation in conferences:

  • Theoretical and practical issues of the difference between a minor act and a minor crime in the light of the implementation of the tasks of criminal justice // Proceedings of the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference «Actual Problems of Interaction of Judicial and Law Enforcement Bodies in the Process of Implementing the Tasks of Criminal Justice». – Zaporizhzhia, May 28–29, 2004. – Pp. 152–155.

  • Protection of constitutional rights and legitimate interests of citizens of Ukraine in the European Court of Human Rights // Materials of the international scientific and practical conference «Forensic and procedural problems arising during investigative actions». – Donetsk Law Institute of Luhansk State University of the Supreme Court of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. – 2006. – pp. 96–101.

  • Socio-legal grounds for the need to counteract crimes committed on religious grounds // Current problems of solving and investigating crimes in modern conditions: materials of the All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conference, October 30, 2009, Zaporizhzhia: in 2 parts – Zaporizhzhia: Legal Institute of the Department of Internal Affairs, 2009. – Part 2. – P. 210-214

  • Criminal-legal characteristics of crimes committed on religious grounds or related to religion // Spiritual life of society and crime. Seventh legal readings: materials of the international scientific conference of students, postgraduates and young scientists. – Odesa, 2009. – pp. 123–126.

  • Content and cases of application of the terms «Crimes on religious grounds» and «Crimes in the sphere of religion» in the science of criminal law// Ukrainian language in jurisprudence: state, problems, prospects: abstracts of reports of the VII All-Ukrainian scientific-practical conference (Kyiv, November 4, 2011) / Ed. col. V. V. Kovalenko, O. M. Dzhuzha, M. V. Kostytskyi et al. – Kyiv: National Academy of Internal Affairs, 2011. –P. 59–60.

  • Types and classification of crimes in the sphere of religion // Current problems of administrative and criminal law and process: materials of the All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conference, March 5, 2014, Donetsk Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. – Donetsk: OOO «Digital Printing House».–P. 155–158.

  • Formation of the motive of religious hatred or enmity as a personal motivation // Current problems of legal psychology: materials of the International Scientific and Practical Conference of the Ukrainian Bar Association, April 25, 2014 – pp. 84–85.

  • The importance of religious education in the formation of a person’s legal consciousness // Current issues of criminal law, criminal process and forensics // Collection of materials of the scientific and practical conference. – Lviv. – January 29, 2016. – P. 75–76.

  • Some aspects of the role and significance of the church institution in the process of preventing crime in the sphere of religion // Modernity and prospects of penitentiary pastoral care: materials of the international scientific and practical conference. – K: Institute of Criminal Enforcement Service, 2016. – pp. 93–96, 134p.

  • Humanization of criminal liability for committing crimes on religious grounds: questions of expediency // Humanization of criminal liability and democratization of criminal justice. Materials of the International Scientific and Practical Symposium. – November 18-19, 2016. – Ivano-Frankivsk: Editorial Department of the Faculty of Law of the King Danylo Halytsky University. – P. 112–116, 414p.

  • Methodological tools for the study of crime on religious grounds in the context of the development of the science of criminal law and criminology // International Scientific and Practical Conference «Priority and strategies for the development of jurisprudence in world science» Sládkovičovo, Slovak Republic October 28–29, 2016. International Scientific and Practical Conference «Priority Tasks and Strategies for the Development of Jurisprudence in World Science» Sládkovičovo, Slovak Republic October 28–29, 2016 – pp. 158–161, 211p.

  • The spiritual and moral potential of religion in the formation of a lawyer's modern global legal worldview // Scientific and pedagogical internship «Legal education in modern university: project-based approach to the work organization according to the guidelines of the European qualifications framework (experienceofthepaneuropeanuniversity)» SlovakRepublic, march . – 2017. –22-24 C. 82–84, 135 p.

  • «Pathological» religiosity as a manifestation of deviant behavior in the context of the formation of the motive of religious hatred or enmity // Materials of the All-Ukrainian Conference «Improvement of the Legal Mechanism for the Protection of Human and Citizen Rights and Freedoms in the Conditions of European Integration, March 29, 2019. – Lviv Polytechnic National University. – Lviv: SPOLOM, 2019, 444p. – P. 231–234.

  • Crime on religious grounds as a modern direction of criminological research // Crime and counteraction to it in the conditions of singularity: trends and innovations: collection of abstracts of the conference dedicated to the memory of T.A. Denisova. – X, KhNUVS, 2021, 464 p. – P. 103-105.

Honors and awards:

  • Awarded a certificate from the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council for many years of conscientious work and high professionalism, 2007

  • Gratitude expressed by the director of the State Scientific Institution «Book Chamber of Ukraine named after Ivan Fedorov» for a significant personal contribution to the development of book publishing activities in Ukraine, 2016

  • Diploma of the Zaporizhia Regional Administration for many years of conscientious work, fruitful scientific and pedagogical activity, professionalism, significant personal contribution to the training of highly qualified specialists, 2018

  • Awarded the 3rd degree Order of Merit to the Zaporizhia Region by the Zaporizhia Regional Council, 2021.

Membership in public associations:

  • • Member of the public organization «All-Ukrainian Association of Criminal Law»

  • • Member of the public organization «Center for Reforms, Democracy and Law».

Main scientific works

  1. Criteria and signs of minor acts under the criminal legislation of Ukraine // Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Scientific notes. Special issue. – 2000. – Volume 18. – Part 1. – P. 186-189.

  2. Insignificance of an act in violation of entrepreneurial activity // Entrepreneurship, economy and law. – 2001. – pp. 92–93.

  3. Peculiarities of the criminal procedural procedure for closing and refusing to initiate criminal cases on the basis of the norm of insignificance of the act // Bulletin of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Lugansk Autonomous Okrug. –Lugansk. – Issue 1. – 2006. – P. 124–125.

  4. Criminological aspects of activity of religious totalitariansects // Interuniversity international scientificpractical conference. Criminology development perspectives in Georgia. Tbilisi. – 2011. – P. 10–15.

  5. The social danger of religious fanaticism as a socio-psychological phenomenon // Bulletin of the Chernivtsi Faculty of the National University «Odesa Law Academy». – 2013. – No. 1. – P. 247–256.

  6. Crimes committed on religious grounds: problems of qualification and classification // Bulletin of the Prosecutor's Office. – No. 3 (153) March, 2014. – P. 61–68.

  7. Definition of socially dangerous behavior by world religions and their influence on the state of religious crime // Scientific Bulletin of the Kherson State University. Series: «Legal Sciences».–2014. – Issue 2. – Vol. 4. – P. 34–38.

  8. Religious fanaticism. Legal and social psychological aspect // Justice and Law / Legal journal of the Supreme court of Georgia and f the judges association ofGeorgia. – 2014. – № 2 (41). – P. 96–101.

  9. Characteristics of the religious situation in Ukraine: historical prerequisites for the formation of a religious worldview and the modern attitude of society to religion // Journal of Eastern European Law: electronic scientific and practical edition, professional edition. – 2015. – No. 11. – P. 51–58. – Access mode: http//easternlaw.com.ua

  10. Crime and religion: criminological research // Monograph: – Zaporizhia: Krugozor. – 2015. – 700 p.

  11. Methodological foundations of research into the phenomenon of crime on religious grounds as a socio-legal phenomenon // Bulletin of the National University «Lviv Polytechnic». – Collection of scientific papers. – No. 861. – Series: Legal Sciences. – Lviv. – 2017. – P. 476–485.

  12. Historiography of theoretical and legal problems of crime on religious grounds // Legal Science. - No. 4 (70). - 2017. - P. 61–77, 107p.

  13. Crime in the sphere of religion: legal and psychological research // Monograph. – Zaporizhzhia: Publishing house: Prosvita, 2017. – 418p.

  14. Religiously motivated crime // Monograph. – Tbilisi: Tbilisi Technical University, 2017. – 252p. Available at:http//opac.gtu.ge/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detali.p? Biblionumber=24481

  15. Criminal policy of Ukraine on prevention of crime based on religion in the context of Euro integration processes // European vector of contemporaryjurisprudence:the experience of Ukraine and the republic of Poland:Collective monograph. Volume 1.Sandomierz:Izdevnieciba «Baltija Publishing», 2018. 520p. – P.285–304.

  16. Criminal liability for misuse of budget funds, budget expenditures or granting loans from the budget without established budget allocations or exceeding them // Kyiv: Center for Educational Literature, 2019. –226p.

  17. Transformation and development of customs in the conditions of the new economy // National University «Zaporizhzhya Polytechnic». – Zaporizhzhia: FOP Mokshanov V.V., 2019, 336p.

  18. Pathological religiosity phenomenon as manifestation of individual’s deviantbehavior: religious hatred or discord motive in commission of crimes in the religious denomination sphere // Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics [S.I], v. 10, n.1, p. 295-306, feb. 2020. Quarterly Volume X, Issue 1(39). Spring 2019 ISSN 2068-696X. Available at: http:journals.aserspublishing.eu/jarle/article/view/4358 Jornal’s DOI: https://doi.org/10.14505/jarle

  19. Features of group motivation for criminal acts committed on the grounds of religious hatred of hostility // Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics [S.I], v. 10, n.3, p. 834-841, may, 2020. Quarterly Volume X, Issue 3(41). Summer 2019.ISSN 2068-696X.Available http:journals.aserspublishing.eu/jarle/article/view/4358 Jornal’s DOI: https://doi.org/10.14505/jarle

  20. Criminal Liability for Providing Innacurate Information about the Spread of the COVID -19 Epidemic // Cuestiones Politicas. Vol.39 № 71. 2021.

  21. Scientific and practical commentary on the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine // Kyiv: Publishing House: «Professional», 2023. – 1208p.

Contacts

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69063, Ukraine, Zaporizhia, Levka Lukyanenka St., 39

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