NOM311: Criminal Law

The aim of this Module is to acquaint students with the concept, purpose and sources of Criminal Law, the fields and persons to whom Criminal Law is applied and enforced, the meaning and elements of crime, the legal substance of the crime (actus reus, mens rea, external terms of the crime, subjective elements of wrongful act), the distinction of crimes, the place and time of crime’s commission,  the Rules of Methodology of the Substantive Criminal Law, the wrongful nature of the act and reasons for justification or excuse of the wrongful act, the (subjective) attribution of the act to the perpetrator  and  the reasons for excluding attribution, the objective attribution of the act’s result to the perpetrator, the attempted crime, the participation in a crime, the joinder of crimes, the punishments (prinicipal and ancillary ones) and the security measures, with the assessment of sentence, the conversion of prison sentences, the reasons for reducing the sentence, the mitigating circumstances, the sentence  for Joinder of crimes, the consecutive crime, the reprieve of a probational sentence, the release on parole, the reasons for the offense’s elimination (e.g. statute of limitations, waiving the arraignment, satisfaction of the victim) and the issues relevant to minors.