CRIMINAL LAW
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- COSTANZA BERNASCONI
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- IUS/17
Training objectives
- Good knowledge of the nature and features of Criminal Law and understanding of concepts and general categories; acquisition of technical language.
Main knowledge: in-depth knowledge of general principles of Criminal Law and their value in the legal system with reference to effectiveness and limits, structure and elements of offence, special forms of offence execution, penalty and enforcement system, offender and criminal liability.
Main skills: application of general principles and institutes to practical cases Prerequisites
- In order to be admitted to examination, students must have passed the following exams: Constitutional Law, Institutions of Private Law. As a prerequisite students need a good knowledge of basic notions and categories; adequate knowledge of fundamentals of Private and Constitutional Law, in particular of the legal sources. Learning and reasoning skills.
Course programme
- Introduction to criminal law (features and historical evolution) (4 hours). Fundamental principles of Criminal Law (14 hours). Crime and its elements (author, conduct, event, causation, offense, guilt, etc.) (22 hours). The so-called special forms of offence execution (circumstances, attempted crime, complicity). Unit or plurality of crimes (8 hours). Imputability (4 hours). Notion, foundation and scope of penalties. Penalty in the Constitution. The causes of offence and penalty exclusion. The social risk. Security measures (8 hours).
During the explanation of the various topics will be ample space and attention to methods of legal research Didactic methods
- Lectures. In-depth seminars about issues of interpretation and application. The teaching method focuses on the direct involvement of the students even at the stage of the explanation of the new topics, stimulating the reasoning and the proposition of simple practical cases.
The course will be delivered partly remotely (synchronously) and partly face-to-face, according to the calendar published on the Degree Course website. The distance lessons, and also the lessons delivered face-to-face, will be streamed in the following virtual classroom of GoogleMeet:
https://meet.google.com/uaa-sepo-trb. Learning assessment procedures
- Oral examination to verify the full knowledge of the issues covered by the programme and the student's ability to interpret and resolve concrete issues. The oral exam consists in the proposition of three questions on different parts of the program and of which one always alleging the penalty system. The final grade results from the average of the grades deriving from every single answer given by the student to the three questions. This rule does not apply if the student isn't in the condition of sustaining the exam.
Reference texts
- C.F. GROSSO, M. PELLISERO, D. PETRINI, P. PISA, Manuale di Diritto penale, Parte generale, Milano, 2020, pp. 1-172, 187-783, 801-815;
or, alternatively,
T. PADOVANI, Diritto penale, Milano, 2019, 1-490;
F. MANTOVANI, Diritto penale. Parte generale, IX edizione, Padova, 2015, pp. XXIII-LIV; 3-22; 39-548; 620-848; 877-899; 914-926.
As an option and upon agreement with the teacher, students can use a different text.
Criminal Code updated.
F. MANTOVANI, Dritto penale, CEDAM, Padova, 2015.
s an option and upon agreement with the teacher students can use: G. Fiandaca-E.Musco, Diritto penale. Parte generale, Zanichelli, Bologna,last edition.
Codice penale, edition 2015.
