Criminal Law I

Recommended Prerequisites

Students are expected to know the basics of criminal law (general theory of crime and legal effects thereof) taught in the 1st cycle studies.

Teaching Methods

Lectures on the theoretical topics with resolution of practical examples and analysis of pertinent court decisions

Learning Outcomes

Students are expected to learn about, and problematize, the theoretical and practical (court decisions) subjects relating to special ways of commiting crime: attempt, accessoryship  and concurrence

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Special forms of crime: attempt, accessoryship  and concurrence

Part I. Attempt

I. Stages of a completed crime

II. Attempt

III. Withdrawal

Part II. Accessoryship in intentional crimes of action

I. Perpetratorship

II. Forms of perpetratorship

III. Accomplicity

1. Accomplicity and co-participation

2. Grounds for punishment

3. Accessory perpetrator

4. Criminal intent

5. Types of accomplicity

6. Punishment

7. Accomplicity and attempt

III. Issues common to perpetratorship and accomplicity

IV. Excursus: negligent perpetratorship

V. Excursus: co-participation in crimes of omission

Part III. Concurrence

I. Unity and plurality of crimes

II. Unity of crimes

III. Concurrence of crimes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Dias, Jorge de Figueiredo, Direito Penal, Parte Geral, Tomo I (Questões fundamentais. A doutrina geral do crime), Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 2007 (2ª edição).

Nota: No decurso das aulas, a propósito de cada um dos temas, será indicada bibliografia adicional.