Jurnal Cita Hukum
Vol. 14 No. 2 (2026): Summer Edition

Challenges of Harmonizing International and National Criminal Legislation of Ukraine

Volodymyr Tykhyi (Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor, Merited Lawyer of Ukraine Adviser to Presidium of National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Yurii Kuryliuk (Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor, Merited Lawyer of Ukraine, Department of Theory and History of State and Law, National Academy of Management, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Volodymyr Nikiforenko (Doctor of Juridical Science, Professor, Merited Lawyer of Ukraine, Department of Theory and History of State and Law, National Academy of Management, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Liliia Polunina (Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Legal Support and Law Enforcement, Faculty of State Security, Kyiv Institute of the National Guard of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Mykola Karpenko (Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, State Scientific Institution “Institute of Information, Security and Law of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Sep 2026

Abstract

The study aims to analyze the main challenges of harmonizing international and national criminal legislation of Ukraine, to recognize the main legal and institutional barriers that influenced this process. The study was based on the application of doctrinal legal analysis and the comparative law method. This made it possible to analyze international legal acts, provisions of the criminal legislation of Ukraine, and modern scientific approaches to the interaction of international and national criminal law. The results of the study demonstrated that the harmonization process was characterized by several interrelated challenges, including regulatory gaps between international standards and national criminal legislation, institutional restrictions in the implementation of international legal norms, and difficulties in the practical application of the principles of international criminal law in the national legal system. The study also emphasized the growing influence of European integration processes on the modernization of criminal legislation, and the separate development of mechanisms for harmonizing national legal norms with European and international standards. The conclusions show that effective harmonization required legislative changes, as well as the separate development of the institutional capacity of the criminal system.

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citahukum

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Religion Humanities Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences Other

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Jurnal Cita Hukum is an international journal published by the Faculty of Sharia and Law, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia. The focus is to provide readers with a better understanding of legal studies and present developments through the publication of articles, ...