The course delves into the area of economic criminal law, which is an essential complement to the criminal law preparation with respect to the teachings of Criminal Law and Advanced Criminal Law. On the one hand, economic - in particular, business - crime represents a test case for the resilience of the main institutes of the general part of criminal law; on the other hand, the solutions prepared by the criminal legislator to counter such crime have often proved decisive, in the broader context of so-called "modern" criminal law, for the innovation of the paradigms of imputation of criminal liability taken as a whole.
Having framed the "economic crime" from a criminological and structural point of view, the course aims to highlight the specificities of commercial criminal law both for the "general part" (in comparison with the general part of classical criminal law) and for the "special part" (in light of the particular implementation, in this area, of the models of protection made available by the criminal law arsenal).
The course also aims to emphasize the importance of integration between the different formants (normative, jurisprudential, doctrinal) of law (in this species, commercial criminal law) in order to fully understand the policy, exegetical and applicative problems of the subject.
At the end of the course, the student must be able to refer to the contents of the examination program, demonstrating adequate communicative ability based on the legal terminology of reference, as well as problem solving skills through the use of logical-legal arguments that are coherent and accompanied by the normative and jurisprudential references relevant to the individual topics covered.