law

The course develops the analysis of the institutes of the general part of the penal law also with references of special part. Specifically, the lessons are divided into the following order: 1) The criminal law, the crime and its species; 2) Criminal law and crime; 3) Interpretation and analogy; 4) Interpretation and autonomy of criminal law.The coordination between branches of law.Interpretation and "crisis of legality"; 5) Competition of criminal laws and structural relations between cases; 6) The effectiveness of criminal law over time; 7) The effectiveness of criminal law in space; 8) The effectiveness of the criminal law against people. International criminal law; 9) The structure, elements and conceptions of the crime; 10) The principle of materiality. The fact. The event; 11) The principle of offensiveness.The legal good. The event as an offense; 12) The conduct; 13) The causal link; 14) The passive subject and the active subject; 15) The principle of guilt. The titles of psychological imputation. The "conscience and will" of the conduct; 16) The intent; 17) The fault; 18) The error; 19) The divergence between wanted and realized.Aberratio and objective responsibility; 20) Imputability and collectability; 21) The 'situation' of crime; 22) Concluding considerations. The structural conception of the crime; 23) The circumstances of the crime and the typical figures of criminal abilities; 24) The attempt; 25) The contest of people in the crime; 26) The contest of crimes; 27) The penalty and the criteria for commensuration; 28) The limits of punishment; 29) Security measures; 30) Other consequences from crime; 31) General profiles of the liability of entities for crime.

Knowledge of private law and public law

1) A. Fiorella, Le strutture del diritto penale. Questioni fondamentali di parte speciale, Giappichelli, ult. ed. 2) G. Marinucci, E. Dolcini, G.L. Gatta, Manuale di Diritto penale. Parte generale, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, ult. ed. 3) G. Fiandaca, E. Musco, Diritto Penale. Parte generale, ult. ed. 4) F. Palazzo, Corso di diritto penale, Giappichelli, ult. ed. 5) D. Pulitanò, Diritto penale, Giappichelli, ult. ed.

The lessons are conducted frontally by the teacher through the illustration of the general principles of criminal law and the constituent elements of the crime. During the course there is ample space for discussion with students. In-depth seminars on the topics covered in the classroom are also organized in order to make the preparation of the subject more complete.

Attendance is suggested but not mandatory

The examination consists of an oral test. In order to achieve a passing grade, the student must firstly demonstrate knowledge of the general principles of criminal law; secondly, the examinee must present knowledge of the individual elements constituting the offence and the institutions pertaining to the general part of criminal law. The student must also demonstrate that he/she has acquired the method of legal argumentation, expressing himself/herself with an adequate and correct propriety of language. The test is considered to have been passed with top marks if the student shows particular capacity for in-depth study and logical and coherent connection between the various institutes.

F. ANTOLISEI, Manuale di diritto penale, parte generale, Giuffrè, 2003 A. CADOPPI – P. VENEZIANI, Elementi di diritto penale, parte generale, Cedam, 2021 G. FIANDACA - E. MUSCO, Diritto penale, parte generale, Zanichelli, 2019 F. MANTOVANI, Diritto penale, parte generale, Cedam, 2020 G. MARINUCCI - E. DOLCINI – G. GATTA, Manuale di diritto penale, Giuffrè, 2022 T. PADOVANI, Diritto penale, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2019 F. PALAZZO- R. BARTOLI, Corso di diritto penale, Giappichelli, 2023