The Academy of Law Management of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia

Editorial and publishing activities

Editorial-and-publishing activity of the Academy is performed in order to provide the educational process with the scientific, educational and study and training literature and in order to apply the scientific research results by means of their publication, rendering of the methodical help to organisations and bodies of the penal system. Annually more than sixty editions of different kinds are handled and published. Special attention is given to the preparation of the Newsletter of legal advice bureau at the Academy of the Federal penal service of Russia and study guides from issues "The library of a correctional officer" which should increase the level of professionalism of practitioners of the penal system.

The Academy publishes three scientific magazines: "Person: crime and punishment", "Penal law", "Applied juridical psychology" (included in the List of the leading reviewed magazines and editions in which the basic scientific results of doctoral dissertations should be published). Now the Academy has become the first higher school among educational establishments of the Federal penal service of Russia which has the right to duplicate the top secret literature, and it is also a representative for preparation of reviews concerning the possibility to use educational editions in the integrated group of specialities "Humanities" only in the sphere of the law-enforcement activity which is within the competence of the Federal penal service in educational institutions of secondary vocational, higher and additional vocational training (the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia from November, 25th, 2011 № 2755).

Such reviews are identical with the visa of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.