COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

IUS/16 - 7 CFU - 1° semestre

Docente titolare dell'insegnamento

VANIA PATANE'

Obiettivi formativi

Knowledge and understanding

The course consists of lectures and seminars. Students are presented with cases and materials and could be required to write short papers on specific topics Such an approach is aimed at verifying which systems best fulfil the goals juvenile justice highlighted by basic principles, guidelines and Recommendations issued at the supra-national level and is clearly intended to assess how far Europe is from adopting a comprehensive and homogeneous approach to the problem of dealing with juvenile offenders.

Applying knowledge and understanding

The course is aimed both at providing students with a knowledge of the main key-issues related to criminal proceedings against juvenile offenders and at allowing them to acquire the “tools” needed to compare the features of different national juvenile justice system, different patterns of responses to the “youth justice problem”, different philosophical underpinnings, institutional arrangements, operational policies and processes involving young offenders.

Prerequisiti richiesti

Diritto costituzionale e istituzioni di diritto privato

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Consigliata

Contenuti del corso

Different approaches to juvenile justice: the welfare model, the justice model, the minimum intervention model, the restorative justice model, the neo-correctionalist model.

Comparative analysis of some european juvenile justice systems through the following key-issues:

Relevant legal framework regulating criminal proceedings involving juvenile offenders - Age tresholds of criminal responsibility and liability to prosecution – Specialized agencies – The role of the Police – The role of the prosecutor – The role of the judge – Personality assessment procedures and aids to sentencing – Safeguards for the protection of minors - Deprivation of personal liberty both at the pre-trial stage or under sentence by the court - Early definition of the proceedings – Mediation and restorative justice – Sanctions

Testi di riferimento

- European Juvenile justice Systems (coord. by GLAUCO GIOSTRA – ed. by VANIA PATANÈ), Giuffrè, 2007, pp. 67-94; 171-199; 243-272; 315- 351; 385-440.

- M. CAVADINO-J. DIGNAN, Penal Systems: a Comparative approach, Sage, 2006, part 3, cap. 12, pp. 199-214.

Altro materiale didattico

http://studium.unict.it/dokeos/2016/

Programmazione del corso

	Argomenti	Riferimenti testi
1	Civil law and common law systems
2	The role of the European Convention on human Rights and the U.N. Convention on the rights of the child
3	U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child artt. 1-4
4	U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child artt. 37-40
5	Age tresholds for criminal liability
6	Different approaches to juvenile justice: the welfare model, the justice model
7	The minimum intervention model, the restorative justice model, the neo-correctionalist model
8	The role of the juvenile court
9	The role of the victim
10	Private prosecution
11	The E.U.Directive on procedural safeguards for children suspected or accused in criminal proceedings (800/2016)
12	Safeguards for juvenile suspects at the investigation stage
13	Pre-trial measures
14	Role of social services and other specialised agencies
15	Personality assessment procedures and aids to sentencing
16	Diversion strategies
17	Early definition of the proceedings
18	The sanction system
19	Alternatives to detention
20	Victim-offender mediation
21	Educative and therapeutic measures

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