The criminal law course will be split in three parts.
The first part will deal with the most important principles of Italian criminal law.
The second part has the purpose of teaching the theoretical structure of the crime.
The third part, at the end, will provide general notions regarding penalties and sentencing.
Course Content
The criminal law course should be split in three parts.
First part is deputate to explain to the students the most important principles of italian criminal law.
The second part of the course has the purpose to theach the structure of the crimes. In this part will be also treated the difficult theme of the crimes displayning forms.
The third part, at the end, will provide general notions on the discipline of penalities.
The textbooks which will be used is:. Palazzo, Corso di diritto penale, Parte generale, Giappichelli, Torino, latest edition.
Learning Objectives
Lerning objectives: the most important principles of Italian criminal law; the theoretical structure of the crime, with specific regard to the actus reus and the mens rea, to the defenses and to the "culpability"; the main features of penalities and sentencing.
Learning Objectives
LEARNING OBJECTIVES is knowledge: a)
the most important principles of italian criminal law;
b)structure of the crimes, with particular attention to the objective and subjective components, to the excusing cases and to the guiltness;
c) general notions on the discipline of penalities.
Prerequisites
Students must have passed: Constitutional Law (Diritto costituzionale
generale), Private Law (Diritto Privato I).
Prerequisites
Students must have passed the exams in: Private Law (Diritto Privato I), Principles of public law (Istituzioni di diritto pubblico generale).
Teaching Methods
Lectures: total 72 hours.
Teaching Methods
Lessons: 72 hours.
Further information
You need to use a criminal code
Type of Assessment
Oral examination, with no distinction between attending and non-attending students.
Grade is assigned according to the following criteria:
- knowledge of the most important principles of Italian criminal law, of the theoretical structure of the crime, of the main features of penalities and sentencing;
- capability to organize discursively the
knowledge and quality of
exposition;
- use of proper legal language;
- critical reasoning.
Type of Assessment
There will be oral examination at the end of the course.
Course program
The criminal law course will be split in three parts.
The first part will deal with the most important principles of Italian criminal law, with specific regard to the punishment objectives. In this part, the attention will be focused on the principle of legality in criminal law and to its corollaries: the rule of law, the strict meaning of the written law and the non-retroactivity of the law.
The second part of the course has the purpose of teaching the theoretical structure of the crime, with specific regard to the actus reus and the mens rea, to the defenses and to the "culpability"; the main features of penalities and sentencing.
The third part, at the end, will provide general notions on the main features of penalities and sentencing.
Course program
The criminal law course should be split in three parts.
First part is deputate to explain to the students the most important principles of italian criminal law, with particular regard to the punishment functiones and the principles of naturality, offensivity, typicality and legality. Particular attention will be reserved to the auxiliary of the principle of legality and in particular to the reserve of the production of criminal law, the necessary precision of the law-texts and the irretroactive of new crimes.
The second part of the course has the purpose to theach the structure of the crimes, with particular attention to the objective and subjective components, to the excusing cases and to the guiltness. In this part will be also treated the difficult theme of the crimes displayning forms.
The third part, at the end, will provide general notions on the discipline of penalities.