DIRITTO PENITENZIARIO
- Overview
- Assessment methods
- Learning objectives
- Contents
- Delivery method
- Teaching methods
- Contacts/Info
PREREQUISITES
Criminal Law constitutes a specific prerequisite for the exam of Prison
Law.
ASSESSMENTS OF THE LEVEL OF LEARNING
There are no intermediate tests. The final exam is oral.
The exam questions will follow the "inverted cone" method, moving from
a general question to questions with more specific content. The final
score will depend on the degree of acquisition of the requested
knowledge (70%), on communication skills demonstrated (10%), on the
adequate use of technical legal terms (10%), on logical and orderly
organization of speech (10%). In the case of attending students, the final
score will also take account of active participation during class.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The course, which will be provided in person in the site of Varese, aims to provide an overall picture of the criminal
enforcement phenomenon, from the birth of the res judicata until the
exhaustion of the criminal enforcement against the convicted. Compared
to an institutional course, more attention will be devoted to case study
and case law analysis, including the examination of pleadings, other acts
and decisions, which should complement the knowledge of general
concepts and normative data. This case law approach aims not only to
achieve a high degree of knowledge of the subject, in order to ensure a
safe entry in the labour market, but also to teach a method of study of
the legal phenomenon, in order to develop autonomous judgement and
learning skills, which the student can usefully employ in his/her future
working life, where the timely re-training plays a decisive role.
At the end of the course a visit of a prison will be organized, to test on-
the-field the theoretical concepts studied in the classroom.
PROGRAM OF THE COURSE
1. Definition of the subject being studied; international and constitutional
framework; historical introduction.
2. Criminal enforcement in the strict sense (10th Book of the Criminal
Procedural Code).
3. Prison Law in the strict sense (Law No. 354 of 1975).
TEACHING METHOD
The lessons will be carried out in person by the professor.
The course is divided into two modules, the first of which will deal with
the Criminal enforcement in the strict sense (10th Book of the Criminal
Procedural Code) and the second of which will deal with Prison Law in the
strict sense (Law No. 354 of 1975).
The content of the course will be examined through lessons during which
the starting point of the analysis will be the rule of law, projected using
an overhead projector or suitable IT tools. During the lesson the teacher,
also involving students, will highlight the challenges posed by the words
of the law, indicating the solutions offered by academic opinions and
judgements, and projecting, using an overhead projector or suitable IT
tools, recent court decisions, interesting or even controversial, in such a
way students get used to problematic reasoning.
TEXTS
Students, both attending and not attending, are absolutely required to
study the relevant laws (European Convention on Human Rights, Italian
Constitution, Book X of Criminal Procedural Code and related provisions,
Law No. 354 of 1975, Decree of the President of Republic No. 230 of
2000) in the version in force at the time of the exam. On the e-learning
platform all the relevant regulatory changes will be indicated, but the
version in force of the above-mentioned laws can also be freely
downloaded at any time from website www.normattiva.it.
For students attending, the teaching materials will consist of:
- their notes taken in classroom;
- the material examined during the lessons, which will be uploaded by the
professor on the e-learning platform;
- the manual Diddi A., Manuale di diritto penitenziario, 4th edit., Pacini
Giuridica, Pisa, 2023 (or later edition), with exclusive regard to the parts
that the teacher will indicate in class.
For students not attending, the text on which to prepare the exam will be
Diddi A., Manuale di diritto penitenziario, 4th edit., Pacini Giuridica, Pisa,
2023 (or later edition), which must be studied in its entirety.
OTHER INFORMATIONS
Reception's timetable
The professor is available before or after the lesson. Any further
requirement (for example, for thesis information) can be always
represented by contacting directly the professor via e-mail.