Superior Compendium of Criminal Law General Part. 2024-2025

The “ I Compendi Superiori” series was created to accompany the highly appreciated and well-established “ Mani Superiori ” with more concise and compact volumes. The Series is specifically designed for all those who are preparing for the written tests of the competition for the judiciary and the main public competitions . The basic idea is to ensure - with slim and synthetic but punctually complete volumes - a solid preparation , with an exhaustive treatment not only of the institutes but also of the related doctrinal and jurisprudential elaborations and theses , reported in a schematic way. The Compendiums are characterized by:

• clarity in expression, simple but at the same time attentive to formal elegance;
• completeness of the treatment , combined with an effective expository synthesis;
• schematic illustration "by points" of the main theses that emerged on the most controversial and debated issues ;
• careful selection of the most significant jurisprudence.

This twelfth edition of the Superior Compendium of Criminal Law , General Part, has also been, as usual, updated to the most important legislative innovations , in particular those regarding: intertemporal relationships between the abolition of the crime of abuse of office, common embezzlement and the new crime of misappropriation of money or movable property (Law 9 August 2024, n. 114, so-called Nordio Law and Legislative Decree 4 July 2024, n. 92, converted into Law 8 August 2024, n. 112); prosecution upon complaint (Legislative Decree 19 March 2024, n. 31, so-called Cartabia Corrective); criminal shield for those practicing health professions (Law 23 February 2024, n. 18). Among the numerous new developments in jurisprudence examined, those in the field of: the concurrence between disturbed freedom of auctions and extortion and the relevance, in the latter, of the loss of opportunity ( Cass., Unified Section, 22 July 2024, no. 30016 ); assisted suicide and dependence on life-sustaining treatments ( Constitutional Court, 18 July 2024, no. 135 ); jurisprudential changes in malam partem , retroactivity and guilt ( Cass., Section VI, 16 July 2024, no. 28594 ); concurrence of persons with heterogeneous charges ( Cass., Section United, 11 July 2024, no. 27727 ); European arrest warrant ( Cass., Section VI, 7 June 2024, no. 23296 ); concurrence of persons and confiscation for equivalent ( Cass., Section VI, 6 June 2024, no. 22935 ); REMS and maximum terms ( ECtHR , 6 June 2024 , Cramesteter v. Italy ); proportionality and individualization of the sentence ( Constitutional Court, 20 May 2024, no. 91 ); immunity from prosecution pursuant to art. 68 Cost. for statements made by parliamentarians on social media ( Constitutional Court, 11 April 2024 , no. 104 ); Caivano Decree, juvenile probation and intertemporal profiles ( Juvenile Court of Bari, GUP, order 25 March 2024 ); tempus regit actum , foreseeability and living law: extended confiscation and retroactive applicability of the prohibition on citing tax evasion in justifying disproportionate income ( Cass., Joint Section, 23 February 2024, no. 8052 ); continuation between crimes judged with an abbreviated procedure ( Cass., Joint Section, 16 February 2024, no. 7029 ); criterion for charging the most serious event in the unintentional crime ( Cass., Sect. V, 1 February 2024, n. 4564 ; 13 December 2023, n. 36402 ); proportion in legitimate defence ( Cass., Sect. IV, 29 January 2024, n. 3399 ); crimes of danger and fascist exhibitionism ( Cass., Joint Section, 18 January 2024 no. 16153 ); state of necessity and victims of trafficking ( Cass., Section VI, 18 January 2024, no. 2319 ); restorative justice ( Cass., Section IV, 6 December 2023, no. 646 ; Cass., Section II, 12 December 2023, no. 6595 ); criminal relevance of eloquent silence alone ( Cass., Section II, 16 November 2023, no. 46209 ); repeated recidivism and balancing ( Constitutional Court, 30 October 2023, no. 197 ); specific intent in the crime of theft ( Cass., Section United, 12 October 2023, no. 41570 ).

Furthermore, the treatment has been revised or integrated of numerous topics, including: preterintention; criminal shield of health workers; causal determination and asbestos-related diseases; criminal law and artificial intelligence.

The volume is completed by a substantial analytical-alphabetical index , specifically structured to allow for easy and quick research of the institutions and problems related to them.