The course aims at providing students with a in depth knowledge of the criminal responses to the challenges posed by criminality on a global scale. It covers the analysis of the main manifestations of international criminality (transnational organised crime, human traffic and migrants’ smuggling, terrorism, economic criminality, environmental crimes), as well as the national and international strategies for their prevention and repression, assessing their forms and tendencies, also in the light of the growing importance of the objective of the economic sustainability of the criminal response.
In addition, the course aims to equip students with appropriate tools to interpret legal complexity and develop their ability to carry out legal research and solve concrete cases involving fundamental issues of International, Transnational and European criminal law.