Criminology With the Criminal Law Basics

1. identify criminal act
2. analyze certain criminal acts
3. explain the basic principles and institutes on substantive criminal law
4. identify the penalties and the basics of their execution
5. explain the structure of the special part of the Criminal Code
6. acquire the terminology and definitions to be used in the work
7. develop critical thinking regarding situations arising in practice when dealing with interventions
8. distinguish the legal from the criminological definitions of crime and socially pathological phenomena
9. classify the criminological theories and apply them in practice
10. compare the respective theoretical approaches and empirical research in relation to the particular forms of crime

Lectures are aimed at acquiring basic knowledge of substantive criminal law, distinguishing criminal offenses from other forms of punishable acts, and adopting the principles of substantive criminal law. Critical thinking on topics related to course learning outcomes is encouraged

The seminars are designed as independent works that demonstrate the ability of students in written expression and critical judgment of selected topics, and at the same time are preparation for the preparation of final papers.

Case study; Examples of criminal justice practice

1. Lectures: Introduction – elementary knowledge in the area of legal dogmatics, the concept and the elements of the criminal act (2 classes) Seminar: The concept and the elements of the criminal act:submitting false statements and non-reporting (1 class) Exercises: Fundamental principles and institutes of a substantive criminal law (1 class)
2. Lectures: Unlawfulness and the reasons for exclusion of unlawfulness (2 classes) Seminar: Unlawfulness and the reasons for exclusion of unlawfulness: case study (1 class) Exercises: Accomplicity (1 class)
3. Lectures: Stages of committing criminal act (2 classes) Seminar: Endangering life and property with a dangerous act or means (1 class) Exercises: Stages of committing criminal act (1 class)
4. Lectures: Guilt and its elements, command responsibility and the issue of guilt, individual perpetrators of criminal act and participants (2 classes) Seminar: Command responsibility and the issue of guilt: case study (1 class) Exercises: Crimes against the life and the body (1 class)
5. Lectures: Criminal sanctions – types and their execution (2 classes) Seminar: Disclosure of classified information (1 class) Exercises: Crimes against the personal freedom (1 class)
6. Lectures: Crimes against humanity and human dignity,crimes against the life and the body, crimes against the property, crimes against personal freedom, privacy, honour and reputation, sexual freedom, crimes against the general security, public order and traffic safety, crimes against the acts of service (2 classes) Seminar: Assault on the officials and/ or a person under the international protection: case study (1 class) Exercises: Crimes against the acts of service and jurisdiction of the Military Disciplinary Court (1 class)
7. Lectures: Crimes against the Republic of Croatia; Crimes against the the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia and legal powers of the military police (6 classes) Seminar: Method for studying individual cases – Military Police (2 classes) Exercises: Crimes against the the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia (1 class)
8. Lectures: Defining criminology as a science, development of criminological thought, subject of criminology, relation between criminology and other sciences, methods of criminology, crimes as individual and mass social occurence, traditional and wider concept of criminology, society reaction on criminal behaviour (3 classes)). Seminar: Scope, structure and movement of crimes in the world and in the Republic of Croatia (2 classes) Exercises: Crimes against the property (1 class)
9. Lectures: Method for studying individual cases (clinical, anamnestic), ducumentation method, content analysis, experiment, trial observing; Criminal profiling and criminal prognostics (3 classes) Seminar: , Exercises: Scope, structure and movement of crimes in the world and in the Republic of Croatia (2 classes)
10. Lectures: Application of statistics in criminology and critique of statistical dana sources, scope, structure and movement of crimes in the world and in the Republic of Croatia, methods of examination of dark number of crimes; triangulation method (4 classes) Seminar: , Exercises: Modern crime theories and empirical researches (1 class)
11. Lectures: Criminological theory on the causes of criminal behaviours, modern neoclassicism, right realism, biological and psychological theories and explorations in criminology, sociological orientation in criminology: theory of anatomy, theory of cultural conflict and discrepancies, Chicago school and ecological theory, new social defence; theory of social interactionism and labelling, theory of differential association, control theories, modern crime theories and researches (4 classes) Seminar: , Exercises: Situational prevention of crime (good practice examples) (1 class)
12. Lectures: A victim and the science on victims, theory and nature of victimisation, lifestyle theory, types of victims and „victimless felonies“ (3 classes) Seminar: , Exercises: Criminological profiling and criminal prognostics (1 class)
13. Lectures: Crime of adult and juvenile offenders in the world and in Croatia, typology of delinquents-vulnerable groups, types of forms and typologies of offenders; Property crime in the world and in Croatia (2 classes) Seminar: , Exercises: Formal and informal responses to crime (2 classes)
14. Lectures: Emerging forms of the personal data abuse and their sale on Darknet/ OSINT - Open Source (2 classes) Seminar: , Exercises: Examples of criminal justice practice (2 classes)
15. Lectures: The abuse of modern technologies for criminal purposes - Deep Web / Darknet (2 classes) Seminar: Exercises: Examples of criminal justice practice (2 classes)