DIRITTO PENALE E CRIMINOLOGIA

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Salvatore Aleo and Enrico Lanza
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: IUS/17 - Criminal law
Taught classes: 54 hours
Term / Semester:

Course Structure

Frontal classes


Detailed Course Content

From the system of private vendetta to that of the penalty. The school of natural law. The Enlightenment and the classical school of criminal law. The origins of criminology: the positive school of criminal law. The contribution of Father Gemelli. Durkheim and the concept of anomie. The development of criminal sociology in the United States. Interactionist perspective in sociology of deviance and crime. Labeling theory and total institutions. The contributions of psychology and studies concerning aggression. The prison. Historical analysis and specific problems of imprisonment Penitentiary system. Alternative measures to detention.

Crimes concerning law and order. Organised crime. Crimes against public administration.


Textbook Information

S. Aleo, Criminologia e sistema penale, II ed., Cedam, Padova, 2011, pp. 1 - 268.

S. Aleo, Dal carcere. Autoriflessione sulla pena, Pacini, Pisa, 2016.

S. Aleo, Istituzioni di diritto penale, Parte speciale, vol. I, II ed., Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, Milano, 2021, capp. III e IV, pp. 105 - 292.