The program is divided into two modules, each subject to specific assessment during the examination: the first (institutional) has as its object the study at institutional level of the constitutional and general principles in criminal matters, of the constitutive elements of the crime in its various forms of manifestation of the objective and subjective criteria for imputing the criminal offense, the types and methods of application of the sanctions; the second (in-depth study) has as its object the penitentiary legislation and the re-educational treatment of the condemned.
Formal institutional module (6 credits)
Study of constitutional and general principles in criminal matters: reserve of law, non-retroactivity, determination and taxation, guilt, materiality and offensive. Definition and structure of the crime. Types of offense. Examination of the constituent elements of the crime: typical fact (active and omissive conduct, event, causal relationship); anti-juridicity (single reasons for justification); guilt (imputability, willful misconduct, guilt, pre-intention, ignorance of criminal law). Forms of manifestation of the offense: circumstances, attempt, unity and plurality of offenses, concurrence of people in the offense. Punishment and sanctioning system. Penis and security measures. Function and measure of the penalty. Causes of exclusion and extinction of punishment.
Theoretical-practical study module (3 credits)
The bodies of criminal execution. Penitentiary treatment, with particular reference to the re-educational treatment, to work, to permits, to the penitentiary regime. Alternative measures to detention: conditional release, probation in the social service, home detention, semi-liberty, early release. The surveillance procedure: competences, the surveillance magistrate, the surveillance court, procedural aspects, types and form of the measures, attributions and competences of educators and social workers.