The recommended texts will be indicated at the beginning of the course.
Learning Objectives
Lerning objectives are:
a) to understand the "crime problem", seen from the prospective of criminal science;
b) to identify and formulate the main issues;
c) to interpret and justify the suggested solutions.
Prerequisites
Students must have passed the exams in: Constitutional Law (Diritto costituzionale generale), Private Law (Diritto Privato I). It is strongly recommended to attend the lessons only having passed the exam in Criminal law (Diritto penale I).
Teaching Methods
Lectures: 48 hours.
Further information
In order to attend the course, students shall sign up. The attendance of the registered students will be verified by a presence list. A maximum of justifications will be allowed.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination.
Attending students should work on texts and other materials used during the lessons; non-attending students should work on alternative materials indicated at the beginning of the course.
Grade is assigned according to the following parameters: knowledge of texts and other materials;
- capability to organize discursively the
knowledge and quality of
exposition;
- use of proper legal language;
- ability of critical reasoning.
Course program
The aim of the course is to analyze the crime problem seen from the prospective of criminal sciences.
First part of the course treats the notion of crime with particular regard to the criminological and legal notions.
It is also discussed the problem of the reason of crime, through the analysis of unifactorial theories (antropological, psychiatric, psychoanalitic, psychosocial and sociological) and multifactorial theories.
In the same part it is also analyzed the problem of law enforcement against crimes from the retributive, general prevention and special prevention prospectives.
The second part deals with some specific issues that will be identified among the following ones: Italian and international terrorism; corruption; sexual crimes; enviromental crimes; mass media and criminal justice; recidivism.