Program Overview

DIRITTO PENALE I

Course Description

The course "Diritto Penale I" is part of the university program offered by the University of Genoa. It focuses on the study of general principles of criminal law, with particular reference to constitutional principles, the structure of the crime, forms of manifestation, and penal sanctions.

Objectives

The course aims to provide students with extensive knowledge and jurisprudential insights into criminal law, specifically covering:

• The legitimation and tasks of criminal law
• The functions of punishment and the sanctioning system
• The sources and limits of the applicability of criminal law
• The notion and systematics of the crime
• The fact of the crime
• Illegality and justifying reasons
• Guilt
• Punishability
• Attempt
• Concurrence of persons in the crime
• Concurrence of crimes and apparent concurrence of norms
• Circumstantiated crime
• Liability for corporate crimes

Detailed Objectives and Learning Outcomes

Through individual study, attendance, and participation in proposed educational activities, students will be able to:

• Understand and recall the normative provisions regulating criminal law and the structure of the sanctioning system
• Comprehend the structure and mechanisms of application of penal norms and be aware of their diversifications
• Identify the different components of the systematics of the crime and comprehend, interpret, and apply the relevant normative discipline
• Distinguish between different institutes of general part, comprehend their rationale, and understand their interconnections with the criminal process
• Identify, comprehend, and distinguish the different components of the sanctioning system
• Comprehend and contextualize any legislative interventions related to the penal code or complementary criminal legislation
• Critically read and examine, with autonomy of judgment, scientific articles in the field of criminal law, texts of sentences of merit courts, legitimacy, and the Constitutional Court, as well as European judgments related to criminal issues
• Acquire appropriate legal technical language and use it to express themselves correctly

Teaching Methods

The course consists of frontal lessons for a total of 54 hours (equivalent to 9 CFU), during which the principles of guarantee of criminal law and the components of the systematics of the crime and the sanctioning system will be presented and analyzed, with parallel discussion of the most relevant jurisprudential orientations on the subjects of the program.

Program/Content

The foundation and functions of penal sanction, historical, cultural, and institutional presuppositions of current criminal law, criminal law and the Constitution, the principle of legality with respect to sources, content, time, and interpretation of penal norms, and more.

Texts/Bibliography

For attending students: C.F. GROSSO, M. PELISSERO, D. PETRINI, P. PISA, "Manuale di diritto penale. Parte generale," IV edition, Milano, Giuffrč, 2023, in the parts indicated during the lesson. For non-attending students, the same manual is required, excluding Chapters I and II.

Teachers and Commissions

• Annamaria Peccioli
• Commission members include Annamaria Peccioli (President), Antonella Madeo, Marco Berruti (Supplente), and others.

Lessons

• The lessons will start in mid-September 2023.
• The schedule for the lessons will be provided.

Exams

• The exam takes place in oral form and aims to verify the student's effective knowledge and acquisition of theoretical notions related to the subjects of the program.
• Through theoretical general questions, it will be verified if the student is able to identify and define legal concepts using appropriate technical language, and to distinguish, know, understand, interpret, and apply, with critical spirit and autonomy of judgment, both the normative provisions that compose criminal law and the texts of some fundamental sentences.

Exam Schedule

• Dates for the exam sessions are provided, including January 10, 2024, February 6, 2024, and others, with specific times and locations.