Teaching code

4S009084

Academic staff

Barbara Vettori, Andrea Di Nicola, Rosa Maria Vadala'

Coordinator

Barbara Vettori

Credits

6

Language

English

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

IUS/17 - CRIMINAL LAW

Period

Secondo semestre dal Mar 7, 2022 al Jun 10, 2022.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

The course will provide the conceptual, methodological and cultural basis to analyze and study the
“ICTs Criminal Law”, cybercrimes and computer-related crimes and the “technological investigations”, developing the capacity in using correct and specific language and discourse. Students will gain, following this method and in subiecta materia, legal and technical expertise both on substantive criminal law and procedure criminal law levels.
The course will study the new illegal phenomena related to the use of the new technologies and Internet, also through social networks (for example: online defamation, frauds - connected to online banking, phishing, identity theft - privacy violation, copyright infringement, child pornography, child grooming, cyberterrorism, cyber laundering).
The course will analyze, taking into consideration real cases, the applicable criminal law, in particular for
illegal activities down to the new concept of “cybercrime”, which is a transnational and global crime.
For this reason it’s necessary to analyze the most important international and European legal sources (Cybercrime Convention and Lanzarote Convention of the Council of Europe, European directives on: attack against information systems, child pornography, intellectual property, e-commerce and privacy)
Special attention will be given to the Internet Service Providers criminal liability, subject of recent European Court of Justice and Italian Corte di Cassazione judgements (cases Google, Netlog etc.).
In this area particular attention will be paid to the need to regulate the collection of data and the digital evidence, which are becoming increasingly important for the detection and prosecution of every criminal offence, not only “cybercrime”.

At the end of the course the student has to show to have acquired the following skills:
● knowledge of the specific technical language in the context of crimes falling into to the category of cybercrime
● knowledge of the methods and tools for the determination of cybercrimes, with specific reference to current regulations and concrete cases
● knowledge of the legal consequences, both criminal and civil, of the crimes generally ascribable to the cyber-crime area.

Program

PART 1. Cybercrime: the phenomenon – prof. Andrea Di Nicola
Monday 21 Mar 10.30 -12.30 Crime in the «digital society»: examples of criminological studies
Wednesday 23 Mar 10.30 -12.30 Cybercrime typologies and modus operandi (1)
Monday 28 Mar 10.30 -12.30 Cybercrime typologies and modus operandi (2)
Wednesday 30 Mar 10.30 -12.30 AI and ML in cybercrime
Monday 4 Apr 10.30 -12.30 Defining cybercrime from a criminological perspective: cybercrime vs. digital crime
Wednesday 6 Apr 10.30 -12.30 Measuring cybercrime: data sources and challenges
Monday 11 Apr 10.30 -12.30 Explaining cybercrime: criminological theories (1)
Wednesday 13 Apr 10.30 -12.30 Explaining cybercrime: criminological theories (2)

PART 2. Cybercriminals: focusing on authors – prof. Barbara Vettori
Tuesday 19 Apr Easter holidays’ break
Wednesday 20 Apr 10.30 -12.30 Profiling cybercriminals (1)
Tuesday 26 Apr 9.30 -11.30 Profiling cybercriminals (2)
Wednesday 27 Apr 10.30 -12.30 Cyber-organised criminals / cyber-criminal associations

PART 3. Cybercrime victims – prof. Barbara Vettori
Tuesday 3 May 9.30 -11.30 The emergence of cybervictimology
Wednesday 4 May 10.30 -12.30 Profiling cybercrime victims

PART 4. Responding to cybercrime: prevention strategies –prof. Barbara Vettori
Tuesday 10 May 9.30 -11.30 Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies (1)
Wednesday 11 May 10.30 -12.30 Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies (2)
Tuesday 17 May 9.30 -11.30 Focusing on AI and ML as prevention strategy
Cybercrime prevention: what works, what does not, what is promising

PART 5. Responding to cybercrime: cybercriminal law and criminal procedure at the national and international level – dr. Rosa Maria Vadalà
Wednesday 18 May 10.30 -12.30 The Law Cyber-Revolution’s Challenges and the main international legal sources (1)
Tuesday 24 May 9.30 -11.30 The Law Cyber-Revolution’s Challenges and the main international legal sources (2)
Wednesday 25 May 10.30 -12.30 The EU Directives about cybercrimes
Tuesday 31 May 9.30 -11.30 EU Directive on E-commerce and Internet Service Providers criminal liability
Wednesday 1 June 10.30 -12.30 Cybercrime offences – Italian criminal legislation (1)
Tuesday 7 June 9.30 -11.30 Cybercrime offences – Italian criminal legislation (2)
Wednesday 8 June 10.30 -12.30 Cybercriminal procedure law and technological investigations (1)
Tuesday 14 June 9.30 -11.30 Cybercriminal procedure law and technological investigations (2)

Teaching rooms:
Monday and Tuesday = aula L, Ca' Vignal 2
Wednesday: aula T.02, Ca' Vignal 3
On the 4th and 11th of May lectures will be held in aula C, Ca' Vignal 1

Bibliography

Examination Methods

Oral exam on:
1) the notes and materials distributed/discussed in the classroom;
2) the materials listed in the Readings doc.
The exam will be in English.