LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with a firm preparation with reference to the general part of criminal law, with particular regard to institutions and issues involved by the organization of companies and the activities of public administration.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Through individual study and partecipation in lessons the student will be able to:

- Understand and remember the rules of criminal law and the structure of the sanctioning system;

- Understand the structure and the application of criminal dispositions and be aware of their diversifications;

- Identify the different components of criminal offences; 

- Distinguish the different institutions of the general part of criminal law;

- Identify, understand and distinguish the different components of the sanctioning system;

- Know and remember the fundamental of economic and labor criminal law;

- Appreciate the importance of the institutions of criminal law in relation to the problems posed by companies management;

- Read and critically examine, scientific papers and judgments related to criminal law;

- Acquire and use an appropriate legal technical language

- Communicate effectively in written and oral form and adapt one's communication to the context of a public or private company

- Solve concrete cases

-  Acquire knowledge and skills useful for the profession of corporate and public administration legal/administrative advisor,  in accordance with objective n. 4 "Quality education" of the 2030 Agenda

PREREQUISITES

Having passed exams of Constitutional Law and Private Law

TEACHING METHODS

The unit is divided into a first predominant part of lectures, where general and special part of criminal law are explained, and a second part where students are invited to deal with concrete cases (crimes committed inside companies or public bodies), to analyze and suggest how they would manage and solve them. The course includes a total of 54 hours and 9 CFU.

Texts of sentences, legislative reform and scientific papers will be published on Aulaweb.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

- Fundamental principles of criminal law;

- Structure of offence: actus reus, mens rea, justifications;

- Actus reus: analysis of action, omission, chain of causation;

- Singles justifications: legal order, necessity, self defence, exercise of right, consent by rightholder;

- Mens rea: intention, recklessness, negligence;

- Shapes of crime: attempt, concurrent offences, circumstances, participation;

- Criminal sentences and preventive sanctions

- Fundamentals of economy and labor criminal law

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Texts for attendant students: 
Lectures notes and in order of lectures objects: 
C.F. GROSSO, M. PELISSERO, D. PETRINI, P. PISA, Manuale di diritto penale. Parte generale, IV ed., Giuffrè, Milano, 2023, con l'esclusione delle pagine di bibliografia e dei capitoli I, II, VIII, e delle pagg. 662-703; 730-774.

 Preparation of the exam must be integrated with materials published on Aulaweb and a criminal code

For not attendant students:
C.F. GROSSO, M. PELISSERO, D. PETRINI, P. PISA, Manuale di diritto penale. Parte generale, IV ed., Giuffrè, Milano, 2023, con l'esclusione delle pagine di bibliografia e dei capitoli I, II, VIII, e delle pagg. 662-703; 730-774.

Preparation of the exam must be integrated with materials published on Aulaweb and a criminal code