Learning outcomes of the curricular unit

The students should be able to identify the most important concepts of the curricular unit and to understand their specific meaning (for example, neglect, attemp, author; accomplice, plurality of crimes). 

The students should know how to solve practical cases, framing the problems in a doctrinal and legal perspective. They must be able to understand the consequences which arise from the qualification of an actas executive or preparatory, the omission as pure or as a commission by omission, the agent as an author or an accomplice.

The student must show the development of his analysis skills and ability to apply the 
concepts to solve specific situations.

Syllabus

1. Negligence. Art. 15º of the Criminal Code. The double step theory. The breach of care (the objective predictableness and avoidability); the distinction between conscious negligence and the unconscious negligence. The gross negligence. The.

2. The praeterintecional crime and the crimes aggravated by the result;

3. The omission crimes. The commission by omission and the art. 10º. The pure omission.

4. The attempt and abandonment. The distinction between preparatory acts and executive acts. The punishment for attempt. Impossible attempt and putative crime. The punishment for impossible attempt.

5. The participation. The distinction between perpetrator and accomplice. The different forms of perpretration.

6. The plurality of crimes.