Superior Manual of Criminal Law 2024-2025

The Higher Manual of Criminal Law reaches its twenty-first Edition . This is an important milestone for a legal volume that has had and will continue to have the objective of rigorously and innovatively training generations of legal professionals already in practice, as well as aspiring magistrates and lawyers.

As usual, the Edition has been 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 ; Genoa Court, order 21 November 2023 ); 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 2024, no. 41570 ).
Furthermore, the treatment has been revised. of numerous topics, including: preterintention, criminal shield of health workers; causal determination and asbestos-related diseases; criminal law and artificial intelligence.