Nataliia Veselovska

Date and place of birth: 10 November 1977, Kyiv.

Academic degrees and titles

• Candidate of Legal Sciences.

2021 — defended a dissertation titled “Criminological Characteristics and Prevention of the Involvement of Minors in Unlawful Activities”, specialty 12.00.08 — Criminal Law and Criminology; Criminal Enforcement Law.

Education

• 2013 — National Academy of Management, Bachelor’s degree in Law.
• 2014 — National Academy of Management, Master of Law diploma with honours.
• 2014 — National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Continuing Education: professional-development certificate for “Owners of Private Peasant and Farming Households Providing Rural Green Tourism Services”.

Employment experience

• Since 2008 — Head and Legal Adviser of the Podillia Scouts Youth Organisation NGO.
• 2012–2021 — methodologist for cultural heritage protection and tourism at the Mohyliv-Podilskyi District State Administration.
• Since 2013 — founder and principal manager of the Young Detective School project, an authorial detective school for children and adolescents.
• Since 2013 — regularly conducts conflict-resolution and extreme-situation psychology training and legal-awareness courses for adolescents at camps and individual sessions.
• 2014–2015 — social-work specialist at the Kyiv City Right-Bank Centre for Children and Young People Living with HIV.
• 2014–2015 — supervisor of research and practical placements for Social Work students at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University.
• 2015–2016 — paralegal at Amitex private company.
• 2015–2018 — attorney’s assistant in Vinnytsia.
• 2017 — provided legal advice to families with children in difficult life circumstances and conducted seminars and training for social-service and education professionals, children, adolescents, and parents in Kyiv.
• Since 2017 — Head and Lecturer of the Children’s Detective Agency.
• Since August 2018 — author, manager, and instructor of the Intelligence School educational game.
• Since August 2018 — Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law, Criminology, Civil and Commercial Law of the National Academy of Management, teaching Criminology, Sociology, Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, Legal Deontology, Comparative Law, Legal Logic, Logic and Critical Thinking, Environmental Law, and Agricultural Law.
• Since February 2020 — Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law at the National Academy of Management.
• Since September 2021 — Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure of Kyiv University of Law of the NAS of Ukraine.

ORCID: 0000-0002-5321-9693

Membership in professional associations:

• Union of Lawyers of Ukraine
• Union of Lawyers of Podillia

Special skills and competencies

• Successfully completed the Public Detectives training course in 2020.

Civic and academic activities

Academic supervisor of the Criminologists’ Club student research group and the Own Investigation online discussion club.

Author of more than 70 developmental training programmes and off-site classes, methodological materials, developmental and role-playing games, annual programmes, themed camps, career-guidance training, and youth forums.

Public Detective, conducting joint investigations with the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights into human-rights violations in places of detention or by law-enforcement agencies.

Author of the training course “Human Rights Protection Mechanisms”, included in the Intelligence School programme in 2018–2020.

Author of the training course “Public Detective Defending Human Rights and Freedoms”, included in the Young Detective School programme in 2019–2020.

Author of the 78-hour criminology training marathon “Safety as an Alternative to Violence”.

Author of the three-part, 36-hour criminology training marathon “The Influence of the Environment on a Child’s Personality, or Environmental Criminology: Research into Juvenile Crime”.

Author of the 48-hour criminology training marathon “Saved from Fear: Sixteen Days against Violence”.

Author of the training marathon “Our Feelings Are Our Resource”, including a programme for children and adolescents.

Author of the ten-day training marathon “About Her”.

Author of the fifteen-day criminology training marathon “The Influence of the Powerful: Thirty Outstanding Manipulators”.

Academic consulting for institutions, enterprises, and organisations

2014–2019 — pro bono academic consulting for the Children, Family and Youth Service of the Mohyliv-Podilskyi District State Administration.

2014–2020 — pro bono academic consulting for the Mohyliv-Podilskyi Central District Library.

2014–2021 — academic consulting and legal advice for the Podillia Scouts Youth Organisation NGO.

2017–2019 — pro bono academic consulting for the Skoroposlushnytsia NGO.

2017–2019 — pro bono academic consulting for Serebriia Secondary School in Vinnytsia Region.

2018–2021 — pro bono academic consulting for the Angels of Education Charitable Foundation.

2017–2021 — pro bono academic consulting for the Kraplia Comprehensive Development Centre.

Between 2008 and 2021, helped establish several civic organisations, including organisations providing free legal advice to vulnerable groups, and actively worked to protect human rights.

Since 2008 — participation in conferences and training on HIV prevention and assistance to vulnerable groups, including work in rehabilitation centres.

Actively contributed to projects with the Faith, Hope, Love All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation; Parents’ Land Foundation; Native Home Foundation; Orthodox Scouts of Ukraine; National Organisation of Scouts of Ukraine; Let’s Make Ukraine Clean; Heart to Heart Foundation; Mohyliv-Podilskyi Local History Museum; Citadel International Association of Fortification Researchers; Vinnytsia Association of Orthodox Educators; Everest Sports and Tourism Club; From Country to Ukraine Social Innovation Foundation; and Angels of Education Foundation.

Participated in a 2013 initiative to strengthen partnerships among state institutions, Ukrainian churches, and civic organisations in preventing HIV, other socially dangerous diseases, and social orphanhood. The initiative was organised by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine and the Ministry of Social Policy with Global Fund support under a programme establishing sustainable HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support services for vulnerable groups and people living with HIV.

Recipient of numerous commendations, certificates, and a medal.

Ranger since 2009.

Repeatedly named Instructor of the Year, Leader of the Year, and Manager of the Year by partner NGOs.

Publications indexed in Scopus and Web of Science:

• Veselovska Nataliia, Slipeniuk Vasyl, Yasynok Dmytro, Zhukevych Ihor, Gorbenko Arina. Electronic Proceedings in Modern Legal Conditions. International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security. Vol. 21, No. 8, August 2021.

Articles in Ukrainian professional journals

1. Veselovska N. O. Difficulties in Identifying the Causes of Involving Minors in Criminal Activity. Legal Science. 2015. No. 8. P. 158–163.
2. Veselovska N. O. Victimological Characteristics of a Minor Victim. Legal Science. 2019. No. 8. P. 131–137.
3. Veselovska N. O. General Social Measures to Prevent the Involvement of Minors in Criminal Activity in Ukraine. Legal Science. 2019. No. 9. P. 145–150.
4. Veselovska N. O. International Experience concerning the Involvement of Minors in Criminal Activity. Bulletin of the Southern Regional Centre of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. 2020. Issue 24. P. 121–127.
5. Veselovska N. O. Selected Forensic Foundations for Preventing the Involvement of Minors in Unlawful Activities. Current Problems of National Jurisprudence. 2020. No. 5. P. 71–74.

Article in an international professional journal:

• Veselovska N. O. Characteristics of the Criminal Person Who Involves Juveniles in Illegal Activity. European Reforms Bulletin. 2020. No. 4. P. 143–147.

Publications in research and practice conference and seminar proceedings:

1. Veselovska N. O. Preventing Suicide among Children and Adolescents: Philosophical, Psychological, and Criminological Aspects. International Research and Practice Conference of the Association of Postgraduate Law Students. Kharkiv, 2013.
2. Veselovska N. O. Preventing Adolescent Suicide: Philosophical, Psychological, and Criminological Aspects. International Research and Practice Conference of the Black Sea Law Foundation. Odesa, 2013.
3. Veselovska N. O. Prevention of Juvenile Crime. International Research and Practice Conference of the Istyna Zaporizhzhia Civic Organisation. Zaporizhzhia, 2014.
4. Veselovska N. O. Decentralisation as a Foundation for Safeguarding the Rights and Freedoms of Minors. Decentralisation as a Foundation for Safeguarding Human and Civil Rights and Freedoms, Kyiv, 21 November 2014. Veselovska N. O. Identifying the Causes of Involving Minors in Criminal Activity. The Significance of Psychology in Modern Society, Kharkiv, 19–20 December 2014.
5. Veselovska N. O. Analysis of Monitoring Data on the Involvement of Minors in Criminal Activity. Právna veda a prax v treťom tisícročí, International Academic Conference, Košice, Slovak Republic, 27–28 February 2015.
6. Veselovska N. O. The Influence of Antisocial Behaviour by Adult Women on Juvenile Crime. Promising Areas for Developing Modern Legal Scholarship, Ivano-Frankivsk, 20–21 March 2015.
7. Veselovska N. O. Analysis of Monitoring Data on the Involvement of Minors in Criminal Activity. Current Issues in the Development of Statehood and the Legal System in Modern Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia, 28–29 October 2016.
8. Veselovska N. O. Involving Minors in Certain Types of Criminal Activity. Current Issues in the Development of Statehood and the Legal System in Modern Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia, 28–29 October 2016.
9. Veselovska N. O. Current Methodological Issues in Investigating the Involvement of a Minor in a Crime. National Security amid the Challenges of Economic Globalisation, 2nd International Online Academic Conference, Kyiv–Fenglin, 12–14 October 2018. P. 136–140.
10. Veselovska N. O. Methods of Involving Minors in Crimes. Current Issues of Legal Theory and Practice: Academic Discussions, Kharkiv, November 2018. Part II. P. 66.
11. Veselovska N. O. Particularities of Interviewing Minors in Child-Friendly Justice. National Security amid the Challenges of Economic Globalisation, 3rd International Online Academic Conference, Kyiv–Baku, 15–17 February 2019. P. 96–99.
12. Veselovska N. O. International Experience in Investigating the Involvement of Minors in Criminal Activity. Reforming Criminal Proceedings in Ukraine: Procedural and Forensic Aspects, Irpin, 19 April 2019. P. 329–334.
13. Veselovska N. O. Forensic Psychological and Psychiatric Examinations when Investigating the Involvement of Minors in Criminal Activity. Problematic Issues of Forensic Medicine and Legal Practice, Kyiv, 23 May 2019. P. 26–30.
14. Veselovska N. O. International Experience in Investigating the Involvement of Minors in Criminal Activity. National Security amid the Challenges of Economic Globalisation, 5th International Online Academic Conference, Kyiv–Thessaloniki, 14–15 October 2019. P. 120–124.
15. Veselovska N. O. Involving Minors in Criminal Activity through the Internet. National Security amid the Challenges of Economic Globalisation, 6th International Online Academic Conference, Kyiv–Požega, 20–21 February 2020. P. 127–132.
16. Veselovska N. O. Typical Investigative Situations when Investigating the Involvement of Minors in Criminal Activity. National Security amid the Challenges of Economic Globalisation, 7th International Online Academic Conference, Kyiv–Baku, 25–26 June 2020. P. 80–82.
17. Veselovska N. O. Interviewing an Adult Accused under Article 304 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: Establishing Psychological Contact. National Security amid the Challenges of Economic Globalisation, 8th International Online Academic Conference, Kyiv–Rzeszów, 14–15 October 2020. P. 85–89.