The prescription of the crime constitutes one of the most relevant institutions and, at the same time, more complex than Italian criminal law, since it affects the relationship between the State's need to prosecute and ascertain crimes and that of preventing a person from remaining indefinitely exposed to....
Arrest in flagrante delicto constitutes one of the most important institutions in the preliminary investigation phase, as it allows the judicial police, under the conditions established by law, to immediately deprive a person of personal liberty in connection with the commission of a criminal act, prima...
Whoever, outside the cases provided for by the article 285, in order to kill, carries out acts that endanger public safety and is punished, if the event results in the death of several people, with life imprisonment. If the death of only one person is caused, applies ...
The crime of fraud is intended to protect the assets and the free formation of consent within the taxable person. More specifically, Punishability does not derive only from damage to the individual's financial sphere, already protected by the regulations on contracts, but also of the public interest in....
The provision pursuant to art 648 to c.p., in predicting the criminal figure of money laundering, sanctions – except in cases of complicity in the crime – anyone who replaces or transfers money, goods or other benefits deriving from an intentional crime, or does in relation to them..
Anyone commits the crime of self-laundering, having committed or contributed to committing a non-negligent crime, employs, substitute, transfers, in economic activities, financial, entrepreneurial or speculative, money, the goods or other benefits deriving from the commission of this crime, in order to concretely hinder....
The mitigating circumstance of provocation is provided for in art. 62 n. 2 of the penal code and consists in "having acted in a state of anger caused by an unjust act of another person". First of all, the extenuating circumstance in speech is a very different institution from provocation, i.e. the cause of justification provided for by art. 599 comma 2 c.p. ....
Bribery is a crime which is defined as the abuse of power or extortion by a public official or public service officer. It is considered a form of bribery and is prosecuted by law in many countries. Concussion occurs when...
The expression "aberratio" or "aberrant crime" refers to those hypotheses in which the agent realizes, by mistake in the means of execution or for any other cause, a crime other than the intended one, or causes an offense against a person other than the one he intended...
There is the aggravating circumstance of the 'impaired defense' in the hypothesis of fraud committed through the sale of products online; in this case, the distance between the victim's location, who usually pays the price of the goods sold in advance, and what in which, instead, and...