For the students that will regularly attend the class:
notes taken during the course;
G.Forti, L'immane concretezza. Metamorfosi del crimine e controllo penale, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano,
2000, Parte II, cap. 2 (pp. 297-554).
For the students that will NOT (regularly) attend the class:
G. Forti, L'immane concretezza. Metamorfosi del crimine e controllo penale, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano,
2000, Parte I, cap. 1 e Parte II (pp. 1-100; 191-554).
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
Lessons: 48 hours.
Further information
In order to attend the course, students shall sign up. The attendance of the registered students will be verified by the presence list. A maximum of justifications will be allowed.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination.
Grade is assigned according to the following parameters:
- knowledge of texts the notes;
- ability to organize discursively the
knowledge and quality of
exposure;
- using of proper technical 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 treated the problem of defence against crime from the retributive, general prevention and special prevention prospectives.
The second part deals with some specific issues that will be identified among the following: the italian and international terrorism; corruption and sexual crimes;
recidivism.