Criminal Law I
Code: 102252 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500786 Law | FB | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Joan Baucells Llados
- Email:
- joan.baucells@uab.cat
Teachers
- Joan Baucells Llados
- Maria Jose Cuenca Garcia
- Fermin Morales Prats
- Jaume Antich Soler
- Maria Jesus Guardiola Lago
- Maria Jose Pifarre De Moner
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
Dra. Guardiola Lago. SPANISH
Theory 1. SPANISH
Seminar 11. SPANISH
Theory Group 70. SPANISH
Seminar 701 ADE+Dret. SPANISH
Dra. Maria Josep Cuenca García. CATALAN
Theory Group 2. CATALAN
Seminar 21. CATALAN
Seminar 32. CATALÁN
Dr. Joan Baucells Lladós. CATALAN
Theory group 3. CATALAN
Seminar 31. CATALAN
Dr. Fermín Morales Prats. SPANISH
Theory Group 51. SPANISH
Seminar 511. SPANISH
Dra. Maria Josep Pifarré de Moner. CATALAN
Seminar 13. CATALAN
Seminar 33. CATALAN
Seminar 702 d' ADE+Dret. CATALAN
Dr. Jaume Antich Solé. CATALAN
Seminar 22. CATALAN
Seminar 512. CATALAN
Sr. Luís Miguel Morillo Fernández. SPANISH
Seminar 12. SPANISH
Seminar 23. SPANISH
There are not prerequisites for this course. However, students will understand it more appropriately if they have already taken and passed the courses on Constitutional Organization of State and Theory of Law.
Teaching will be given taking into account the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals
Objectives and Contextualisation
The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the specificity of Criminal Law as an instrument of conflict resolution. The course mainly aims to make students knowledgeable about concepts such as: criminal norms, constitutional basics of criminal law, sentencing and security measures. Moreover, it is intended for enabling students in using the concepts and terminology of criminal law in a proper way. In order to do this, the reading of legal texts and the working out of practical cases will be carried out.
Competences
- Acquiring the basic knowledge from the several legal dogmas and presenting them in public.
- Arguing and laying the foundation for the implementation of legal standards.
- Demonstrating a sensible and critical reasoning: analysis, synthesis, conclusions.
- Efficiently managing information, being capable of assimilating a considerable volume of data in a limited amount of time.
- Identifying, knowing and applying the basic and general principles of the legal system.
- Managing bibliographic and documentary resources: databases, browsing, etc.
- Mastering the computing techniques when it comes to obtaining legal information (legislation databases, jurisprudence, bibliography...) and in data communication.
- Planning and organising: managing of time, resources, etc.
- Present information in a way that is appropriate to the type of audience.
- Presenting in front of an audience the problems of a concrete law suit, the applicable legal regulations, and the most consistent solutions.
- Searching, interpreting and applying legal standards, arguing every case.
- Using the main constitutional principles and values as a working tool in the interpretation of the legal system.
Learning Outcomes
- Arguing the implementation of criminal laws in the resolution of criminal problems.
- Demonstrating a sensible and critical reasoning: analysis, synthesis, conclusions.
- Distinguishing the applicable legislation between the criminal code and special criminal laws.
- Distinguishing the basic knowledge of criminal law.
- Efficiently managing information, being capable of assimilating a considerable volume of data in a limited amount of time.
- Identifying and knowing the main principles of criminal law.
- Identifying, knowing and applying the legislation and criminal principles to a concrete case.
- Introducing in the classroom the defence or accusation of criminal cases.
- Laying the foundation for the implementation of criminal laws in the resolution of criminal problems.
- Managing bibliographic and documentary resources: databases, browsing, etc.
- Planning and organising: managing of time, resources, etc.
- Present information in a way that is appropriate to the type of audience.
- Searching criminal sentences in databases.
- Solving interpretation and application problems of criminal laws.
- Using the main constitutional principles and values as a working tool in the interpretation of the legal system.
- Verbally explaining the resolution of problems related to criminal laws.
Content
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Seminars | 22 | 0.88 | 1, 2, 16, 9, 5, 10, 11, 14 |
| Theorical classes | 22 | 0.88 | 4, 6, 7, 15 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 1.5 | 0.06 | 11 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Assessment | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 2, 12 |
| Study and preparation of Works | 90 | 3.6 | 1, 13, 2, 3, 9, 10, 6, 7, 11, 14, 15 |
In order to achieve the competences of the course, students must perform two types of activities.
1. Directed activities, which will be done in the classroom, consisting of:
1.1. Lectures given by the professor, in which the theoretical contents of the course will be examined.
1.2. Seminars: Following the lectures, seminars will be devoted to work on each of the topics of the course through activities consisting of discussing readings, analyzing court judgements, performing mock trials and giving presentations
2.- Autonomus activities. As a complement to the directed activities, students will work individually and in a group, through:
a. Group work on the judgements and readings provided to students. The results of some of the group work will be presented in the seminars.
b. Individual work. Students must write four esasays on different topis proposed at the beginning of the course.
3. Tutorials.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final content test | 50% | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 4, 16, 5, 10, 6, 7, 11, 15 |
| Fuirst activity. Theoretical questions | 25% | 2 | 0.08 | 4, 3, 6, 11 |
| Second. Test | 25% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 1, 13, 9, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15 |
Evaluation model:
- The evaluation model is mixed, theoretical-practical- and pursues that the students and the teacher can know the degree of obtaining the competences to guide the formative process.
- Attendance at seminars/workshops is mandatory.
- At the beginning of the course the teacher in charge of each group will inform the students, through the moodle classroom, of the content and dates of the continuous evaluation activities, as well as the final exam model (test, short questions, etc...).
Composition of the final grade:
The continuous assessment activities carried out throughout the course will account for 50% of the final assessment (5 points) and the final set test will account for the remaining 50% (5 points).
Reavaluation:
- Regarding the 50% of the continuous assessment: it will take place on the day set for the re-evaluation. This continuous assessment re-evaluation test will also be worth 2.5 points and will replace the worst of the continuous assessment grades obtained.
- Regarding 50% of the final test: the student who fails the final test may be re-evaluated. The re-evaluation will be done under the same conditions.
- Only those activities that have been evaluated can be reassessed. In case of re-evaluation, the second grade prevails even if it is lower than the first.
. Overall grade of the subject: the final grade of the subject will be the sum of the grade of the continuous assessment (up to 5 points, plus the two tests) and the grade of the overall final test. In any case, both in the continuous assessment and in the final joint test, the result must be, as a minimum, 2 out of 5: In case of not achieving 2 points out of 5, the maximum grade for the subject will be of 4.5. To pass thesubject you must obtain an overall grade of at least 5 points.
Revision: When publishing the notes, both ofthe activities carried out during the course and of the final test, such as the re-evaluation, the teacher will specify the revision system (date, time and place).
Single evaluation
The single evaluacion will be carried out on the day of the final test, with the sameactivities of the continuous evaluation. The reassessment will take place on the set dvay with the same criteria as the continuous assessement
Warning: Students who copy or attempt to copy on a final exam will receive a 0 on the exam. The student who presents a practice in which there is plagiarism will get a 0 and will receive a warning. In case of repetition of the behavior, the student will be suspended from the course.
The student will be evaluated as long as he or she has carried out a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the total grade of the subject. If the value of the activities carried out does not reach this threshold, the lecturer of the subject may consider the student as non-assessable.
Bibliography
MUÑOZ CONDE,Francisco-GARCIA ARAN,Mercedes. Derecho Penal. Parte General. Tirant lo Blanch, 2022.
QUINTERO OLIVARES (con la colaboración de MORALES PRATS). Parte General del Derecho Penal. Aranzadi, 2015.
Software
The subjec does not require any specific software
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 2 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 3 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 51 | Spanish | first semester | afternoon |
| (TE) Theory | 70 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |