The department trains professionals in the field of judicial, prosecutorial, and law enforcement activities to provide qualified legal assistance, as well as to ensure the rule of law and law and order.

Preparation is carried out at all levels of study: bachelor's, master's and doctoral studies. The department offers training under the double degree program.

Students have the opportunity to study in the criminal law trajectory within the educational program "Jurisprudence", as well as in the framework of a specialized educational program - in the direction of pre-trial investigation, prosecutor's supervision and judicial activity.

Students study a compulsory set of basic branches of law, such as civil and criminal law, civil and criminal law. The department offers to study current disciplines in financial, tax, environmental, tort, labor, social, business law, property law, as well as legal conflictology, criminology, theory and practice of sentencing, judicial rhetoric, forensics, organization of legal aid, and advocacy. Legal logic and ethics, juvenology, legal psychology, the basics of forensic medicine and psychiatry, forensic accounting, and legal statistics are studied as additional disciplines.

The department implements a variety of scientific interests. Within the framework of the criminal law cycle these interests include - issues of qualification and prevention of certain types of criminal offenses, the problem of combating corruption, preventing extremism among the youth, the spread of drug addiction, improving the penal law, issues of theory and practice of sentencing. In the criminal procedural and forensic area - the problems of observing the rights of the individual in the criminal process, the issues of the validity and motivation of criminal procedural decisions, proof with the participation of minors, the use of special knowledge in the criminal process, combating money laundering and financing of terrorism, criminal behavior and criminal psychology are implemented.

A graduate of the department can become a civil servant of corps "A" and "B", a judge, a prosecutor, an employee of the Committee of the Penitentiary System (CCIS), a forensic forensic expert, an investigator, a bailiff, a bailiff, an employee of the law enforcement and justice system, special state bodies, legal counsel, legal consultant, lawyer, and HR manager.

The department has a training laboratory for forensic science and forensic examination, multimedia auditoriums, as well as a fund of educational and scientific literature.

Dates and facts

History:

In 1977, three departments were formed: theory and history of state and law, civil law and procedure, criminal law and procedure.
The first head of the department of criminal law and procedure was the candidate of legal sciences, associate professor Kurmanov K.Sh., later an outstanding Kyrgyz legal scholar, doctor of legal sciences, professor.
Over the years, the department was headed by Candidate of Law, Associate Professor A.V. Popov, Ph.D., Associate Professor K.K. Kusnidenov, Ph.D., Associate Professor V.I.Kulikov, Ph.D., Associate Professor Izhnina L.P., Ph.D., Associate Professor K. Zh. Baltabaev, Ph.D., Associate professor Mashabaev A.Zh., Ph.D.,  Associate professor Zhamiyeva R.M., PhD Zholdasova L.M., Ph.D.,  Associate professor Kusainova L.K.
Significant changes at the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure took place during the period of the leadership of K.K. Kusnidenov (1981 - 1986): the scientific and methodological base of the department has been developed and improved; many teachers have completed internships and postgraduate studies at the largest universities in the country.
In 1991, the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure was divided into two independent departments: Criminal Law and Criminology, and Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics. The head of the department of criminal law and criminology was appointed candidate of legal sciences, associate professor Baltabaev K.Zh., the head of the department of criminal procedure and criminalistics was candidate of legal sciences, associate professor Kim K.V.
Candidate of legal sciences, associate professor Agybaev A.N., candidate of legal sciences, associate professor Zhunusov B.Zh., candidate of legal sciences, associate professor Dulatbekov N.O., candidate of legal sciences also worked at the department. ., Associate Professor Nurtayev R.T., Ph.D., Associate Professor Popov A.V., Ph.D., Associate Professor Son M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor Suleimenova G.Zh. , Doctor of Law, Professor Kudryavtseva A.V.
In 2019, the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology and the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics were merged into the Department of Criminal Law, Procedure and Criminalistics.

Teachers:
Today the department employs 17 teachers, including candidates of legal sciences, masters, holders of the republican title "The best teacher of the university."

Students:
The department specializes 80 people, including holders of a state educational grant, representatives of different regions of Kazakhstan, citizens of Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Israel.

Employment:
The employment rate of graduates is 75%.

Innovative programs:
6В04204 - «Judicial and prosecutorial activities» (bachelor's degree)
7М04203 - «Forensic and prosecutorial activities» (magistracy)
7М04204 - «Combating money laundering and financing of terrorism and economic security» (Master's degree).

Double degree programs:
Master's program 7М04207804 - «Combating money laundering and terrorist financing and economic security» совместно с Национальным in cooperation with the National Research Nuclear University «MEPhI» (Russia).

Dissertation Council:
For the defense of doctoral dissertations in the framework of the program

8D04201 - Jurisprudence.

Accreditation and Leadership:
The programs of the department have national accreditation in IQAA and take worthy positions in national rankings: in 2019 and 2020. First place in the IQAA rating among master's programs; 3rd and 2nd places in the IAAR rating among doctoral programs.

100024, Republic of Kazakhstan, Karaganda, Universitetskaya St., 28 buketov.edu.kz State License of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. KZ83LAA00018495 dated July 28, 2020 for educational activities under the educational programs:

“6B04204 — Judicial and Prosecutorial Activity”,

“7M04203 — Judicial and Prosecutorial Activity”.

Projects:
Initiative project "Education for Justice" under the auspices of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Tashkent, participants of seminars to discuss educational modules, 2019-2020.
Project of the International Network AML / CFT Institute and the International Training and Methodological Center for Financial Monitoring under Rosfinmonitoring, members of the working group, 2014 to the present.
Intra-university grant "Theory and practice of countering the spread of religious extremism among the youth", 2020
Arenova L.K. - Specialist in psychological profiling of criminal behavior, from 2017 to the present.

Kusainova L.K. - grant project: ВR28712219 Innovative approaches to the production of verbal investigative actions using artificial intelligence tools.

Serikbayev A.M. - BR24992826  Innovative approaches to ensuring accessibility of justice to the population of the Republic of Kazakhstan, using artificial intelligence tools

 

Partners:
Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Kazakhstan)
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan)
Moscow State Law University named after O.E. Kutafin (Russia)
National University "Odessa Maritime Academy" (Ukraine)
Saint Petersburg State University (Russia)
North-West Branch of the Russian State Academy of Justice (Russia).

By Order No. 963 dated August 29, 2024, a branch of the Department of Criminal Law, Procedure, and Forensics was established within the Department of Economic Investigations for the Karaganda Region of the Financial Monitoring Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

An agreement on the establishment of the branch has been signed, and the Regulations on the branch have been approved.

Educational programs

6В04204 - Judicial and prosecutorial activities: bachelor's degree. The program is innovative, aimed at training bachelors in the field of judicial, prosecutorial, law enforcement activities and the provision of qualified legal assistance to strengthen the rule of law and order. In the course of training, the student will learn to apply legal norms in accordance with substantive and procedural law, legal facts and legal situations; organize and professionally participate in jurisdictional proceedings; analyze the composition of the offense by elements, qualify a socially dangerous act, determine the types and forms of guilt, obligations and responsibility; make decisions on matters of fact and law. The student will have the skill to draw up documents and carry out professional communication using the necessary argumentation, professional discourse.

The student will study such relevant disciplines as the methodology of resolving civil disputes, legal psychology, countering cybercrime, the basics of forensic medicine and psychiatry, forensic science and forensic science.

Graduates of the educational program receive a bachelor's degree in law and can work in the field of civil service, law enforcement and judicial authorities, human resources, legal departments, advocacy, forensic science.

7М04203 – Forensic and prosecutorial activities: master’s degree. The program is innovative, aimed at training management, scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel for legal, law enforcement, universities and scientific organizations. Two directions of training are offered: profile (one year of study) and scientific and pedagogical (2 years of study). In the process of training, the undergraduate will learn how to conduct scientific research, teach, find and solve theoretical and practical problems of qualification of criminal offenses, critically examine the current legislation and the practice of its application, develop scientific proposals for improving the current law, predict trends in the further development of criminal legislation, critically analyze the current norms law, to identify patterns and causes of criminal behavior and criminal offenses, to apply in professional activities the provisions of various criminological theories of crime.

The master's student will study such topical disciplines as innovative methods of researching criminal behavior, the legal nature of a criminal offense (in English), international standards in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist financing (in English), criminological theories, applied issues of qualification of criminal offenses.

Graduates of specialized training receive a master's degree in law and can work in law enforcement and special government agencies, the prosecutor's office, and courts. Those who have graduated from the scientific and pedagogical direction of the magistracy can teach at the university, engage in research activities.

The master's student will study such relevant disciplines as economic security, competitive intelligence, the basics of risk management, countering transnational crime, financial investigations and international standards in the field of countering.

Graduates receive two diplomas: a master's degree in law from KarU named after E.A. Buketov and a master's degree at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute under the program "Economic Security". They can teach at university level, engage in research activities, work as financial analysts in the field of counteraction, compliance officers, security officers in the banking sector, employees of the Financial Monitoring Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, anti-corruption service and economic investigation service. They can also teach at university, and engage in research activities.

8D04201 - «Jurisprudence», doctoral studies. The program is aimed at training highly qualified personnel for the scientific and pedagogical academic environment. During the training, the doctoral student will conduct a scientific research; learn to teach, carry out a critical, conceptual analysis of the state of theoretical and applied problems in the field of jurisprudence; identify patterns in the legal field; put forward scientifically grounded and empirically tested hypotheses and proposals for improving legislative and law enforcement practice; carry out doctrinal analysis and interpretation of current legislation; to develop concepts and drafts of legal acts. The doctoral student will study such disciplines as academic writing, methods of scientific research, kratology (the science of power), problems of implementing criminal policy, issues of reforming the activities of executive authorities at the present stage, issues of reforming constitutional legislation (in English).

Graduates receive a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree and will be able to teach in universities, and work in research institutes.

Teacher profiles

Abzalbekova M.T.

Altaibaev S.К.

Amanzholova B.A.

Bachurin S.N.

Zhumabaeva Zh.Zh.

Kalguzhinova A.M.

Kusainova L.K.

Maitanov A.M.

Mashabaev A.Zh.

Ozbekov D.O.

Siubaeva N. Zh.

Salykova A.K.

Serikbayev A.M.

Sidorova N.V.

Shakenov A.O.