Learning outcomes

The course analyses a specific sector of the Criminal Law regarding business and economics, which is of increasing relevance in the modern social and individual life. Its aim is to give students a specific knowledge of some fields of the criminal responsibility related to economic activity. At the same time it gives them the juridical and cultural instruments necessary to understand its constant evolution and its frequent modifications. These changes depend from one side on the ever-changing aspects of the economic and job system and for the other side on the criminal policy orientations during the historic development of the penal legislation.
As result of the course the students should be able to set correctly the different sectors of the Eco-nomic and business Criminal Law, with specific reference to the constitutional principles and Europe-an sources, to refer the regulation of corporate liability to their of the physical persons for the offences committed in economic activities, recognizing their constitutive elements and circumstances, the related criteria for the attribution of the penal responsibility, the legal protected interests, the eventual concurrence of more offences, to solve case in the mentioned sectors.