The course aims to illustrate the foundations of the relationship between criminal law and the so-called integrated prevention:

- consolidating the competences regarding the constitutional principles of criminal responsibility and the main categories of the general part of criminal law;

- analyzing, also critically, the most important issues of the relationship between criminal law and integrated prevention, with particular reference to criminal policy options and the guarantee profiles of fundamental freedoms.

Full mastery of the contents of the Criminal Law and Public Order course is assumed, also with reference to the so-called general part of Criminal Law, as per the relevant program. The skills acquired, in fact, will have to be applied, even critically, to the study of the contents of the complementary legislation and of the criminal (even if not strictly criminalistic) policy options, involved in the so-called integrated prevention, according to the following program.

1) Resumption of the concepts of public order and public security and of the framework of protection offered to them by criminal law. Resumption of the concepts of protection strategies, criminal policy and criminal law. The legal paradigms of security. Security, insecurity, vulnerability.

2) The cd. multilevel security governance: public entities at central level, coordination with the peripheral and local level, police forces, territorial autonomies, private autonomies. Subsidiary, complementary and participatory security. International and European dimension of security.

3) The tools of integrated prevention. In particular, police measures and preventive measures. Comparison with strictly intended criminal instruments of protection. Concluding reflections on the role of criminal law in the field of integrated prevention.

CRIMINAL LAW AND PUBLIC ORDER is recommended

Knowledge and understanding

• the criteria for the legitimacy of criminal law, the purpose of the penalty and criminal policy
• general principles of criminal law
• criminal law rules and institutions
• The Law and Order and Public Security Act

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

• to research, interpret, enforce criminal law

Autonomy of judgment

• assessing and managing regulatory and jurisprudential complexity

Making judgements

• offer elements of criticism and novelty for interpretation and regulatory creation 

Communication skills

• to draft written and oral comments on judgments and legal opinions
• describe and evaluate the empirical data and its application in the light of legislative, jurisprudential and doctrinal reforms and changes

Learning skills

• basic notions for permanent updating

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Formal classes, seminars, exercitations Innovative teaching methods as described above.

Innovative teaching methods

Debate, problem-based learning, flipped learning, learning by doing.

Attendance

Attendance is not compulsory but strongly recommended

Course books

The exam can be prepared on the basis of the personal notes of the lessons.

Consultation of the updated regulatory texts is required.

The support of the course books indicated for non-attending students is recommended, id est: 

- on the general principles of criminal liability, reference is made to the texts adopted for CRIMINAL LAW AND PUBLIC ORDER - PART I.

- with reference to the special part, R. Ursi, La sicurezza pubblica, Il Mulino, 2022.

Assessment

Oral exam based on three questions or more, with evaluation criteria as follows:

less than 18/30: competence level insufficient. The student doesn’t reach the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.

18-20: competence level sufficient. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.

21-23: competence level satisfactory. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding” and in “applied knowledge and understanding”.

24-26: competence level good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding” and “making judgments”.

27-29: competence level very good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “communication skills”.

30-30 with honours: competence level excellent. The student fully attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “learning skills”.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Formal classes, seminars, exercitations Innovative teaching methods as described above.

Attendance

Attendance is not compulsory but strongly recommended

Course books

On the general principles of criminal liability, reference is made to the texts adopted for CRIMINAL LAW AND PUBLIC ORDER - PART I.

With reference to the special part: R. Ursi, La sicurezza pubblica, Il Mulino, 2022.

Assessment

Oral exam based on three questions or more, with evaluation criteria as follows:

less than 18/30: competence level insufficient. The student doesn’t reach the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.

18-20: competence level sufficient. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.

21-23: competence level satisfactory. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding” and in “applied knowledge and understanding”.

24-26: competence level good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding” and “making judgments”.

27-29: competence level very good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “communication skills”.

30-30 with honours: competence level excellent. The student fully attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “learning skills”.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.