Class Penal Law II

This course is a continuation of Criminal Law I and is therefore equally fundamental. In fact, it includes the study of special forms of criminal offence, including omission and attempt, as well as participation and co-participation and real or apparent competition.

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Wrong Conduct (The Guilt): Approach to a Notion of Guilt; Fundamental Problems of the Doctrine of Guilt; Guilt and Ends of Feathers; The Dogmatic Structure of Guilt; The "Conduct" is attributable; The Dolosa and Neglectful Conduits; The Dolo; The Neglect; Combinations of Dolo and Neglect; The Problem of Error; The Causes of Exclusion from Guilt. The Omissive Conduct (The Omission): The Nature of the Omission; Distinction between Acting and Omitting; Structure of Crimes of Omission; Specificities of the Commissive type by default. Tentative Conduct (The Attempt): Fundamental Structure; The Elements of the Legal Type of Attempted Crime; Punctuation of the Tempted Fact; The Impossible or Ineffective Attempt; Relevance of Withdrawal. Conduct in reimbursement (The Criminal Contrition): Essential Aspects. The conduct in contest (The Competition of Norms and the Contest of Crimes).

Criminal Law II includes both theoretical and practical classes. In terms of the programme outlined below, the former are designed to provide students with essential frameworks for the material, including the fundamental theories and dogmas of the various institutions and also a detailed analysis of Portuguese Positive Law. In addition to revising and clarifying the material presented in the theoretical classes, the practical classes also include the careful application of this knowledge to the resolution of concrete cases. There is also the use of electronic communication platforms, Moodle and hybrid conferences.

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