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.