The scientific and theoretical journal “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad branch of the Saint-Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia” (until 2012 “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad Law Institute of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs”) ISSN 2227-7226 has been published since 2002.

The founder –the Saint Petersburg University of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The publisher –the Kaliningrad branch of Saint Petersburg University of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The journal’s mission is to bring together scientists and practitioners who conduct research on topical issues of legal science and pedagogy in relation to law enforcement.

The purpose of the journal is the dissemination of scientific knowledge and publication of the articles and the results of applied research in the legal and pedagogical sciences; active assistance in raising the level of scientific potential and pedagogical skill of the University’s scientific and pedagogical staff; scientific support and the educational processmaintenance; promoting quality teaching, education and training qualified personnel for the internal affairs agencies.

The objectives of the journal are scientific achievementsdissemination, scientific researchintegration in the field of jurisprudence and practical results of law enforcement agencies activity.

The journal is included in the list of peer-reviewed scientific publications, in which the main scientific results of the theses for the degree of candidate of sciences, for the degree of doctor of sciences in the following scientific specialties and corresponding branches of scienceare to be published:

5.1.1. Theoretical and historical legal sciences (law sciences);

5.1.2. Public-legal (state-legal) sciences (law sciences);

5.1.3. Private Law (civilistic) sciences (law sciences);

5.1.4. Criminal law sciences (law sciences);

5.8.1. General pedagogy, history of pedagogy and education (pedagogical sciences);

5.8.7. Methodology and technology of professional education (pedagogical sciences).

The articles submitted for publication are placed under the following headings depending on the content:

Criminal law and features of defining crimes

Actual problems of criminology

Criminal process issues

Forensic examinations

State.Society.Law

Administrative legislation andadministrative liability

Law enforcement theory and practice

Internal affairs agencies activitymastering

Historical jurisprudence

Pages of the history of internal affairs agencies

Educational process and teaching skills

Pedagogical aspects of professional training

Debating platform

Reviews, accounts, scientific and representative events survey

The periodicity of issues of the magazine is 4 times a year.

The journal is registered by the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor). Registration number - PI № FS77-84264 of December 26, 2022.

Subscription index 45691 on the united catalogue «The Press of Russia».

The journal is distributed by subscriptionfor six months issued in advance.

The issues of the journal are freely available on the journal’s official website at:https://vestnikkf.ru and thewebsite of theKaliningrad branch of the Saint-Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

The journal is included in the scientific electronic librarydatabase «eLIBRARY.RU» and indicated in the RSCI. The information about scientific articles published is availablein the RSCIdatabase within three months from the date of the corresponding edition issue.

The publication of the journal is financed by the founder’s funds.

The editorial officeaddress of the “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad Branch of theSt. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia”is:

236006, Kaliningrad, st. General Galitsky, 30.

Tel. 8 (4012) 46-23-04.

E-mail: vestnikkf@yandex.ru

The subject of the journal

The journal “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad Branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia” publishes the results of original fundamental and applied scientific research on legal and pedagogical problems in relation to law enforcement.

The criteria for selecting articles are compliance with the profile of the journal, novelty, relevance and validity of the results. The submitted manuscripts are not returned. It is not allowed to send to the editorial office works that have been published and/or accepted for publication in other periodicals. By submitting an article to the editorial office, the author agrees to the editorial revision of the material.

All materials submitted to the editorial office are checked for borrowings from open sources, verification is carried out using the Anti-Plagiarism system.

There is no fee for publishing articles.

Articles submitted to the editorial office are registered on the day of submission of the application on the journal's website. If the article is returned to the author for revision, then the date of its registration is the day of receipt of the final text.

The articles submitted to the editorial office are reviewed.

The editorial board reserves the right to literary editing of the article.

Materials not accepted for publication will not be returned to the authors.

Language and geography of the journal

The language of the journal is Russian. The metadata of the article is published in Russian and English. The geography of the journal's authorship covers both Russian and foreign authors.

Technical requirements for articles

The volume of the text part of the scientific article should be from 20 to 30 thousand printed signswith spaces in the Microsoft Word text editor, TimesNew Roman font – 14, which corresponds to 10-15 pages of typewritten text. The volume of other information, reviews and other similar materials is up to 8 thousand printed signs with spaces, which corresponds to 4-5 pages of typewritten text. The line spacing is 1.5. It is not allowed to set a “red line” at the beginning of paragraphs with a tab or the “space” bar; paragraph indentation is set in the menu “Paragraph Format First line (indentation 1.25 mm)”.

Margins on the page: left and bottom 25 mm, top 20 mm, right 10 mm. The text is aligned in width; the pages are numbered (except for the first one) at the bottom in the center. You should not use the signs of manual hyphenation and additional spaces. The quotation marks «herringbone»are used in the text, when highlighting inside quotations and in the text in foreign languages – "paws".

Illustrations (drawings, tables, graphs, diagrams, etc.) are provided separately (in separate files by fragment). The width of the drawing is not more than 14 cm, the height is not more than 18 cm. The format is *jpg. Scanned materials must have a resolution of at least 300 pixels/inch. It is not allowed to present them using Microsoft Office utilities imported into Word.

The formatting of the article

1. The UDC code and the category to which the article belongs

The code is specified in accordance with the classification given in the UDC handbook.

The list of categories is listed on the website of the journal “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia” at https://vestnikkf.ru in the “categories” section and on the website of the Kaliningrad branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

2. Information about the authors in Russian: surname, first name, patronymic, academic title, academic degree, ORCID, e-mail address, affiliation of each author

The procedure for specifying authors is determined by the authors themselves by mutual agreement, more often depending on their contribution to the work performed. The Editorial Board does not recommend the publication of articles co-authored by more than 2 authors.

Scientists and practitioners who assisted in the preparation and conduct of the research described in the article should be indicated in the final part of the article (section “Gratitude”).

If the author of the article does not have an academic degree, or if the author of the article is an applicant, associate or graduate student, the article indicates the surname, first name and patronymic of the supervisor, his academic title and academic degree, position, place of work and specialty (name and number according to the classification of the Higher Attestation Commission). In this case, the article is signed by the supervisor and the commentof the supervisor is attached to the set of documents, the signature of which is certified by the personnel department at the place of work of the supervisor.

Each author specifies his Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). If there is no ORCID, you must register on the site https://orcid.org /.

The e-mail address is indicated by the author when publishing an article in the journal for feedback.

Affiliation is the place of main work of each author: the name of the organization and the address of the location, indicating the postal code. The name of the organization must match the name in the Charter.

3. The title of the article in Russian

The title should contain no more than 75 signs (10-12 words). It should be informative, concise, correspond to the scientific style of the text, contain the main keywords characterizing the topic (subject) of the study and the content of the work. The title should be easily understood by readers and search systems.

Abbreviations and formulas should be omitted from the title.

It is also recommended to avoidin the titlethe cliche “To the problem (question) …”, “About some problems (questions)...”, “Current problems ...”.

4. Abstract in Russian

The abstract should consist of 150-250 words. The abstract should be structured according to the IMRAD structure and contain the following sections:

– introduction, including the relevance of the research topic, problem statement;

– research methods;

– results including key findings.

Sections are indicated in the annotation with the appropriate words: “introduction”, “methods”, “results”.

5. Keywords in Russian

Keywords should consist of 5-7 words, but no more than 10. Words or stable phrases can be used, according to which the article will be searched in the future. It is not allowed to specify abbreviations and formulas as keywords.

6. Information about the authors in English: surname, first name, patronymic (in Latin transliteration), academic title, academic degree, ORCID, e-mail address, affiliation of each author

Authors should pay special attention to the quality of metadata translation into English. The editorial board reserves the right to reject the article in case of poor-quality translation into English.

7. The title of the article in English

When translating the title of an article into English, it is unacceptable to use transliteration from Russian into Latin, except for untranslatable proper names, devices and other objects; also, jargon known only to Russian-speaking specialists is not used.

8. Abstract and keywords in English

The author is responsible for the quality and completeness of the translation of the abstract and keywords into English. There should be no discrepancy in the content of these sections, presented in Russian and English.

9. The text of the article in Russian

The structure of the article should correspond to the structure of IMRAD and consist of the sections:

– Introduction

•  Methods

– Results

– Discussion (if available)

– Conclusion

The section “Introduction” includes the relevance and justification of the novelty of the research topic, a review of the literature on the topic, the formulation of the problem, the formulation of the purpose and objectives of the study.

The section “Methods” includes a description of the methods and ways by which the study was conducted; a description of the schemes of observations / experiments, materials, instruments, equipment; samples and conditions for conducting observations / experiments.

The “Results” section is the core of the scientific article and includes the actual results of the study (text, tables, graphs, diagrams, photographs, drawings).

The “Discussion” section includes the interpretation of the results obtained (the correspondence of the results obtained to the hypothesis of the study), the limitations of the study and the generalization of its results.

The section “Conclusion” includes brief results of the study without repeating the formulations given in the sections of the article; suggestions on the direction of future research.

Sections are indicated in the text of the article with the appropriate words: “introduction”, “methods”, “results”, “discussion”, “conclusion”.

Drawings and tables. The article can contain no more than 8 drawings and tables. They should be described and analyzed in the text of the article. Tables and other digital data should be provided with links to sources. Tables are given in the text of the article; the number and title are indicated above the table.

All abbreviations should be disclosed at the first mention.

10. Bibliographic list in Russian

The bibliographic list must contain at least 15 scientific sources. The sources are indicated in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. All sources in the bibliographic list should be referenced in the text of the article. When quoting directly, it is necessary to specify the page numbers. In the text of the article, the number of the source in the bibliographic list is indicated in square brackets, and the number of the citation page is separated by a comma (for example, [3, p. 25]).

The following data must be specified:

- for books – surname and initials of the author (editor), title of the book, place of publication (city), year of publication, total number of pages;

- for journal articles – the surname and initials of the author, the title of the article, the name of the journal, the year of publication, number, issue, pages (first and last).

For sources with the DOI identifier, it is mandatory to indicate it in the bibliographic description.

The authors of the article are responsible for the correctness of the data provided in the bibliographic list.

It is not allowed to include anonymous sources and regulatory documents (laws, regulations, instructions, etc.) in the bibliographic list due to the fact that they cannot be indexed in citation databases.

It is not allowed to use hard-to-access, unpublished, low-circulation, as well as local, popular and educational sources in the bibliographic list: abstracts of dissertations and dissertations, newspapers, unpublished reports,textbooks, reference books and dictionaries.

It is not allowed to indicate in the bibliographic list of the “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad Branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia”, since references to the journal are self-citations.

No more than one self-citation of the author is allowed in the list of references.

References to sources that cannot be included in the bibliographic list, as well as references to notes, are designed as page-by-page footnotes with end-to-end numbering and indicated in the text in Arabic numerals in upper case.

11. Bibliographic list in Latin transliteration

It is allowed to use automatic online translators for transliteration of the bibliographic list (for example,http://translit-online.ru). The author is obliged to check the correctness of the transliteration before sending the manuscript to the editorial office of the journal.

12. Gratitude (if any)

The author can express gratitude to persons or organizations that have provided significant assistance in conducting the research (including in the case of subsidizing the research). Gratitude is placed at the end of the article.

At the time of submitting the article, it is necessary to indicate whether artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-based technologies were used in the preparation of the manuscript or part of it. In a separate section of the manuscript (which may be a section of methods), the authors should clearly describe how AI was used in the research and/or preparation of the manuscript. This may include the use of LLM, chatbots (such as ChatGPT) and image creators. Artificial intelligence or AI technologies are not considered authors and should not be listed as authors or co-authors in the manuscript. Similarly, they should not be listed as authors or co-authors in links.

By submitting an article to the editorial board, the author (in case of co–authorship – the author responsible for the publication) guarantees that this text is original (it has not been published anywhere before and has not been accepted for publication in other editions), confirms his consent (in case of co-authorship - the consent of all authors) with the rules of the journal and transfers to the editorial board the rights to the publication of the article, the use of an electronic version (posting on the journal's website, etc.). The author also informs about the presence or absence of a conflict of interest related to the publication of the article.

At the end of the article, the author(s) must insert the following content:

“The submitted material has not been published anywhere before and is currently not under consideration for publication in other publications. I declare that there is no conflict of interest related to the publication of this article in the journal “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad Branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia”. I authorize the publication of the full-text version of the article, as well as its parts, in open access on the Internet, as well as on the official channels of the journal on social networks. When creating the article/ part of the article (select 1 option), the capabilities of artificial intelligence were used / not used (select 1 option).”

If there are several authors, it is necessary to indicate their contribution to the creation of the article (for example, “The authors made an equal contribution to the creation of the article” or specify what personal contribution each author made to the creation of the article).

Date, signature of the author(s)”.

Articles of an applied nature should be reviewed by an expert commission on the secrecy regime with the provision of an appropriate certificate on the absence of information prohibited for publication.

The author attaches consent to the processing of personal data to the set of documents.

Articles formatted without taking into account the listed requirements are not considered by the editorial board of the journal.

Submission of the material to the editorial office

Materials are provided to the editorial office through the official website of the journal “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia” at https://vestnikkf.ru. To submit the material, the author must register and create a personal account.

After registering in your personal account, click on the “Send manuscript” button. Select “Create” –>“Journal article”.

Enter the title of the article. The article creation window opens. Fill in the information in the “Metadata” and “Authors” sections. Upload in the “Files” section (click on the “Upload” button):

– an article in the format .docx;

– an article with the signatures of the authors on the last sheet in the format .pdf;

– illustrations (drawings, tables, graphs, diagrams, etc.) in the format.jpg (if available);

– review of the supervisor in .pdf format (if available);

– consent to the processing of personal data in .pdf format.

The sections “Text”, “List of references” and “Topics” do not need to be filled in.

Click on the “Submit manuscript” button. Select “Request for publication”. In the list of publications, select “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia”, in the list of headings select the current heading from the suggested list and click “Send an application”.

When an article is submitted to the editorial office, it undergoes an initial check for compliance with formal requirements.

If it is necessary to finalize the article, all changes are made to the text document. The original version of the article is deleted, and the corrected version is uploaded to the “Files” section on the application page.

The editorial board of the journal “Vestnik of the Kaliningrad Branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia” is guided by ethical norms accepted by the international scientific community. In its activities, the editorial board follows the recommendations of the Committee on Scientific Ethics of Publications (http://publicationethics.org/ ). The publishing house observes a neutral position on the issues published in the journal.

The editorial board of the journal “Vestnik Bulletin of the Kaliningrad Branch of the St. Petersburg University of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs” is guided by the ethical standards proposed by the Committee on Ethics of Scientific Publications COPE, the European Association of Scientific Editors EASE (http://www.ease.org.uk/), the Council of Scientific Editors CSE (http://www.councilscienceeditors.org ), the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers ASEP (http://rasep.ru/ ).

The author of the article, the editor, the reviewer, the publisher are obliged to observe ethical standards at all stages of publication, starting from submission of the article and ending with its publication in the journal.

The ethical rules of the journal should be followed by the authors, the reviewers, the members of the editorial board, editorial staff, as well as all participants in the process of publishing information provided by the journal.

The editor-in-chief, the deputy editor-in-chief, editorial board members, and editorial staff play an important role in resolving potential cases of data fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, image manipulation, unethical research, biased reporting, copyright infringement, redundant or duplicated publications and the conflicts of interest.

The editor-in-chief (deputy editor-in-chief) provides ethical support and control:

- ensures executing of readers’ and authors’ requests;

- ensures high quality of published materials;

- guarantees and ensures freedom of expression;

- ensures the integrity of published scientific materials;

- if necessary, ensures the publication of corrections, clarifications, refutations and apologies.

Decisions to publish or reject an article are based solely on its value, originality, readability and relevance of the content to the journal’s subject matter.

The rules for authors and reviewers, which are regularly reviewed and adjusted, specify the requirements for them.

The Editor-in-Chief (Deputy Editor-in-Chief) and editorial staff ensure the right of reviewers to confidentiality of their work, confidentiality of submitted materials up to their publication, and timely response to complaints.

The Journal may publish justified criticism of previously published material, unless convincing reasons to refrain from such publications are presented (by the Editor-in-Chief or others). The author of the criticized material is given the opportunity to familiarize himself with it and respond to the comments made before the publication of the criticism.

The Editor-in-Chief (Deputy Editor-in-Chief) and the editorial staff are obliged to take adequate action if there is a suspicion of a breach of ethical standards (request clarifications from the authors, etc.). If an appropriate investigation reveals the fact of falsification, the article is not accepted for publication, and such a case is brought to the readers’ attention.

Decisions to publish articles are based on their quality and interest to readers.

Interests (financial, personal, political, religious) of the participants of the publication process (of the authors, Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, members of the editorial board, editorial staff, reviewers, etc.) that may affect the presentation and objective evaluation of the research results are to be disclosed.

Illegal actions are considered to be:

- forgery, falsification;

- plagiarism (misappropriation of intellectual property, as well as high degree of copying of other work);

- duplicated or redundant publication (word-for-word reproduction of the text of another publication by the same author in excess of 30%).

Any previous publications should be disclosed in the article.

Misconduct allegations with detailed facts to substantiate claims are to be considered even if anonymized.

The journal encourages discussion and constructive criticism of the materials published in it.

When reviewing an article, the editorial board of the journal may check the material using the “Anti-Plagiarism” system. If borrowings are idetified, the editorial board acts in accordance with the COPE rules.

Code of Ethics for Scientific Publications

The Code of Ethics for Scholarly Publishing unites and discloses the general principles and rules that should guide the participants of the process of scholarly publishing: authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, distributors and readers in their relationship.

Key Terms:

Ethics of scientific publications is a system of norms of professional behaviour in the relationship between authors, reviewers, editors, publishers and readers in the process of creation, dissemination and use of scientific publications.

Editor is a representative of a scientific journal or publishing house who prepares materials for publication and communicates with authors and readers of scientific publications.

Author is a person or a group of persons (the collective of authors) involved in the creation of publication of scientific research results.

Reviewer is an expert acting on behalf of a scientific journal or publishing house and conducting scientific expertise of the author’s materials to determine the possibility of their publication.

Publisher is a legal entity or an individual carrying out the publication of a scientific publication.

Reader is any person who has reviewed the published materials.

Plagiarism is intentional appropriation of authorship of the work of science or art, another’s ideas or inventions. Plagiarism may be considered a violation of copyright and patent laws and as such may subject to legal liability.

Principles of Professional Ethics in the Activities of

Editor and Publisher

In his/her activity, the editor is responsible for the publication of author’s works, and therefore is guided by the following fundamental principles:

- when making a decision to publish, the editor of a scientific journal is guided by the reliability of data presentation and the scientific significance of the work in question;

- the editor should evaluate the intellectual content of manuscripts regardless of the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, origin, nationality, social status, or political preferences;

- unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts should not be used for personal purposes or shared with third parties without the written consent of the author. Information or ideas obtained during editing related to possible benefits should be kept confidential and not used for personal gain;

- the editor should not allow information to be published if there is sufficient reason to believe that it is plagiarized;

- the editor together with the publisher should not leave any claims unanswered concerning the reviewed manuscripts or published materials, and in case of a conflict situation take all necessary measures to restore the violated rights.

Ethical Principles in the Activity of a Reviewer

The reviewer carries out scientific expertise of author’s materials, therefore his/her actions should be unbiased and adhere the following principles:

- the manuscript received for review is to be treated as a confidential document, which must not be passed for review or discussion to third parties not authorized by the editorial office;

- the reviewer is obliged to give an objective and reasoned assessment of the presented research results. Personal criticism of the author is unacceptable;

- unpublished data obtained from manuscripts submitted for review should not be used by the reviewer for personal purposes;

- a reviewer who, in his/her opinion, is not qualified enough to evaluate the manuscript or cannot be objective, for example, in case of a conflict of interest with the author or an organization, should inform the editor about it with a request to exclude him/her from the process of reviewing this manuscript.

Principles the Author of Scientific Publications Should Guide

An author is defined as a researcher who has made a substantial intellectual contribution to the published work and has presented the results of his/her research. In the case of co-authorship, each author is responsible for at least one component of the work and should be aware of the contribution of others. He should have full confidence in the qualifications and professionalism of his co-authors.

All persons listed as authors must meet the definition of authorship. Each author’s participation in the work must be sufficiently substantial, as each author is publicly responsible for its respective component.

Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual agreements to disseminate the published work (e.g., place it in a university (affiliated) repository or publish it in a book), with acknowledgement of its original publication in this journal.

All persons related to the work but who do not meet the criteria for authorship are listed in the Acknowledgements/ Acknowledgements section (persons who helped in planning the research, selecting material and analyzing it, preparing the manuscript for printing, etc.).

The author has no right to send the same text to different editors. If previously published information is used in the article, the author is obliged to indicate its source, and at the request of the editor to provide a copy of the quoted material.

The author should confirm that his/her article is original and indicate the sources of the cited information.

At the time of article submission, it should be stated whether artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-based technologies were used in the preparation of the manuscript or part of it. In a separate section of the manuscript (which may be a methods section), authors should clearly describe how AI was used in the research and/or preparation of the manuscript. This may include the use of LLMs, chat bots (such as ChatGPT) and image creators. Artificial intelligence or AI-enabled technologies are not considered as authors and should not be listed as authors or co-authors in the manuscript. Similarly, they should not be listed as authors or co-authors in references.

The author must declare a potential conflict of interest (e.g., circumstances that, from his point of view, may influence the publication process).

If a significant error in publication is discovered, the author is obliged to inform the editor immediately. During the preparation of the material for publication, the author is obliged to co-operate with the editor and publisher and, if necessary, to make appropriate changes to the text.

The author assumes full responsibility for possible plagiarism of text, figures and other materials. Any copyright infringement will be considered according to the criteria proposed by COPE.

The author (or team of authors) realizes that he/she bears the initial responsibility for the novelty and reliability of the results of the scientific research, and complies with the following principles:

- the authors of the article must provide reliable results of the research conducted. Deliberately erroneous or falsified statements are unacceptable;

- the authors must guarantee that the research results stated in the submitted manuscript are completely original. Borrowed fragments or statements should be formalized with obligatory indication of the author and primary source. Excessive borrowing, as well as plagiarism in any form, including unattributed quotations, paraphrasing or appropriation of the results of others’ research is unethical and unacceptable;

- the contributions of all individuals who have influenced the research in one way or another should be recognized, in particular, the paper should provide references to the papers that were important in the conduct of the research;

- authors should not submit to the journal a manuscript that has been sent to another journal and is under review, or an article that has already been published in another journal;

- the co-authors of the article should include all persons who have made a significant contribution to the research. Among the co-authors it is inadmissible to specify persons who did not participate in the research;

- if the author discovers significant errors or inaccuracies in the article at the stage of its review or after its publication, he/she should notify the editorial board of the journal as soon as possible.

Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest arises when an author (or the institution he/she works for), reviewer, editor, or any participant of the publication process has financial or private interests (personal relationships, academic competition, intellectual disagreements, etc.) that may adversely affect their actions.

Reviewers provide the Editorial Board with information about possible conflicts of interest that could influence their opinion on the manuscript. If there is such a danger, they refrain from reviewing this material. Reviewers may not use the results of the work under review for their own interests before its publication.

All participants of the process of preparing an article for publication are required to disclose any relationships that could be considered a potential source of conflict of interest.

The Editorial Board publishes such information if it is considered to  influence the assessment of the manuscript.

1. The process of the formation of the issue is carried out by the journal’s editorial board, which includes Russian specialists. The journal is published by the editorial department.

2. The journal is peer-reviewed. The reviewers are recognized, qualified Russian specialists in their respective fields of knowledge.

3. The editorial board ensures the review of all scientific materials and monitors the authors’ compliance with the rules for formatting articles.

4. Authors, reviewers, the editorial board and the editorial staff of the journal comply with the publication ethics provisions.

5. The journal publishes relevant, authentic, objective and science-based materials sent to print for the first time free of charge and without payment of fee. It does not publish journalistic, popular and educational texts, advertisement and other non-core materials.

6. The editorial board reserves the right to edit the title and the text of scientific material, and the bibliographic list.

7. When compiling a journal issue, preference is given to the following materials:

- corresponding to the thematic profile and headings of the journal;

- containing a clear description of the problem and a reasoned author’s version of its solution;

- having an original character (prepared by the authors independently and previously unpublished);

- possessing research novelty (based on the results of one’s own scientific research and presenting new scientific knowledge);

- having a scientific style of presentation (general language literacy, logic, consistency, clarity, special terminology, references, etc.).

8. The article is submitted to the editor in the electronic form (via a personal account on the website https://vestnikkf.ru), drawn up in accordance with the requirements for scientific articles in the journal “Bulletin of the Kaliningrad Branch of St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia”.

9. The received article is registered. An individual registration number is assigned to the article.

10. After registration the article is sent for initial assessment to the editor-in-chief (deputy editor-in-chief), who appoints reviewers for the article.

11. After the appointment of reviewers, the personal data of the author (authors) is removed from the article. This version of the article is sent to reviewers by email.

12. After conducting an expert assessment of the article, the reviewer sends an appropriately processed review to the editor.

13. The decision to publish an article is made by the editor-in-chief (deputy editor-in-chief) and the editorial board of the journal depending on the results of reviewing and checking the originality of the author’s manuscript by specialized software.

If the originality of the text is below 70% (however, borrowings from one source cannot account for more than 7%; borrowings are not allowed in conclusions), the article is rejected.

14. No more than one article by one author including co-authorship, can be published in one issue of the journal.

15. The editors inform the author about the decision made regarding his article through their personal account on the journal’s website. If necessary, the author is given recommendations for improving the material. If a decision is made to reject the publication, the reasons for this decision are explained. Refusal to publish an article may occur for the following reasons:

- the article submitted for review was previously published by the author in another publication;

- it does not correspond to the topics and specialties of the journal;

- has a low level of scientific character and originality;

- improperly formatted;

- the author refuses to make technical improvements to the article or eliminate other errors identified by the reviewers and the publishing editor of the journal.

The article revised by the author on the base of the reviewer’s recommendations is sent by the editors to the same reviewer for re-review.

16. If an article is recommended for publication, it undergoes editorial preparation - technical and literary editing, proofreading. The final version of the article prepared for publication is agreed upon with the author (authors).

17. The next issue of the journal includes articles which have positive reviews and agreed with the author (authors) by the time the layout starts (in accordance with the production schedule).

18. The magazine is a quarterly publication.   It is published in March, June, September and December.

19. Copyright for all materials published in the journal belongs to the founder and the publisher.

20. The authors guarantee the journal the right to reproduce unique materials in their work. In case of unauthorized use of materials by the authors, the rights to which belong to the third parties, the authors of the manuscript bear responsibility for its reproduction.

All scientific articles submitted to the editorial office of the journal undergo mandatory blind review (the reviewer does not know the authors of the manuscript; the authors of the manuscript do not know the reviewers). The manuscripts are sent to reviewers for expert evaluation. Review of articles is carried out by members of the editorial board, as well as by invited reviewers –leading experts in the relevant branch of legal and pedagogical science.

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- the name of the recommended entry;

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Model

Review

on the manuscript of the scientific article «Title» submitted for publication in the journal «Vestnik of the Kaliningrad branch of the Saint Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia»

Correspondence of the title and text of the article to the topics and specialties of the journal.

The article submitted for review corresponds to specialty 5.1.4. Criminal law sciences (legal sciences).

The name of the recommended category.

Recommended category of the journal:

«Criminal Law and Crime Qualification Features».

The presence in the abstract of the article of sections«introduction», «methods», «results» – are available.

The presence in the text of the article of sections «introduction», «methods», «results», «discussion» (if available), «conclusion» – there are sections «introduction», «methods», «results», «conclusion». There is no «discussion» section.

Completeness of disclosure of the contents of the sections «introduction», «methods», «results», «discussion» (if available), «conclusion» available in the text of the article – the section «methods» in the article is identical to the section «methods» in the abstract, contains a simple enumeration of research methods, the essence of which is not disclosed by the author. The completeness of the disclosure of the contents of the remaining sections is high.

The level of relevance of the presented material is high.

The degree of its scientific novelty is average. The article makes a certain contribution to the study of the concept of crime.

The degree of scientific and/or practical interest of the material presented is average. The results of the study expand scientific knowledge about the quantitative characteristics of crime as a social negative legal phenomenon. At the same time, the article does not specify the ways of using new knowledge in the practical activities of internal affairs agencies.

The comprehensiveness of the topic is high.

The language and style of presentation corresponds to the genre of the scientific article, however there has been a large number of speech deficiencies.

Completeness and quality of conclusions - no conclusions in the article.

Compliance with the requirements for the design of the scientific reference apparatus - the bibliographic list is not designed according to the GOST, it has educational publications, which according to the rules of the journal should be specified only in footnotes.

There are no comments.

Based on the above it is possible to draw general conclusion: the article «Title» does not meet the requirements for the materials submitted for publication in the «Vestnik of the Kaliningrad Branch of the Saint Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia», the manuscript should be sent to the author for revision and subsequent review.

Reviewer:

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