- Docente: Ugo Terracciano
- Credits: 5
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Criminology for Investigation and Security (cod. 8491)
Course contents
Didactic Goal:
The course will provide the students with the technical and juridical knowledge necessary for dealing with all aspects of the investigation and in particular its judicial/penal procedures.
The most advanced investigation techniques will be analysed during the course and both scientific and traditional methods will be applied.
Programme:
1. Investigations:
1.1 General concepts of assessment and rules of investigation for an objective reconstruction of facts
1.2 The police investigator in the current normative system
1.3 The private investigator in the current normative system
1.4 Role of the prosecution and an outline of legal proceedings
2. The preliminary investigation:
2.1. information sources
2.2. analysis and synthesis
3. The police investigation:
3.1.assessment of the crime scene
3.2. investigative proceedings to ascertain the source of the evidence; acquisition techniques
3.3. acquisition of information from the person of interest
3.4. psychology of the testimony
3.5. acquisition of information from the the person under investigation
3.6. urgent verifications of places, things, persons
4. Inspection techniques and scientific acquisition of the source of the evidence
5. The defensive investigation
5.1. Powers of the defence
5.2. Powers of the licenced private investigator
5.3. Investigation techniques and limits
6. Investigation techniques, with special focus on:
6.1. crimes against the property
6.2. crimes against the person
6.3. cybercrimes
6.4 organized crimes
6.5. terrorist crimes
Readings/Bibliography
Reference book: Ugo Terracciano "La metodologia dell'investigazione", Franco Angeli, Milano, 2014
Teaching methods
classroom lectures, case histories, field trips to labs
Assessment methods
oral test
Office hours
See the website of Ugo Terracciano