CRIMINAL LAW OF ECONOMICS
cod. 1006889

Academic year 2017/18
5° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Diritto penale (IUS/17)
Field
A scelta dello studente
Type of training activity
Student's choice
36 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Learning objectives

The goal of the course is to prepare students so that they will be able to understand and analyze the phenomena of the economics crime, the so called White-Collar Crimes. This will be pursued through the analysis of real cases, the study of the peculiarity of this kind of crimes, comparing our economics criminal law system with the one of other Countries which already faced enormous economics crimes.

Prerequisites

In order to take the exam and for a better comprehension of the topics of the course, It is required for the students to have successfully taken the Criminal Law exam I

Course unit content

Criminal law of economics, a very topical subject, represents the sector of criminal law protecting the public and private business. In the Criminal law of economics area are included: corporate criminal law, bankruptcy criminal law, business criminal law, tax criminal law, ecc. During the lectures will be faced a selection of the most relevant crimes characterizing the different legal areas above mentioned, such as: bankruptcy, false accounting, tax evasion and so on

Full programme

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Bibliography

C. Nocerino, S. Putinati ( a cura di), La riforma dei reati tributari. Le novità del d.lgs. n. 158/2015, G.Giappichelli Editore, 2015, da pag. 1 a pag. 143


A. Lanzi (a cura di), Diritto penale dell'economia, Commentario, Dike giuridica edizioni, 2016, da pag. 1 a pag. 67 e da pag. 145 a pag. 205

Teaching methods

In addition to the lectures there will be some training sections based on real cases taken from event of public importance that will end with the reproduction of a trial. The students will be divided in two groups, the first will represent the Public Prosecutor, and the second the defense of the accused and they will explain their reasons to a panel of experts.

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam consists in an oral test based on the program of the course.

Other information

The materials to study and solve the case will be provided during the course.