0055404 - CRIMINAL LAW I

Italian.

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.

F. Palazzo, Corso di diritto penale, Parte generale, Giappichelli, Torino, ultima edizione.

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.

Students must have passed: Constitutional Law (Diritto costituzionale
generale), Private Law (Diritto Privato I).

Lectures: total 72 hours.

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.

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.