In order to attend successfully the lessons, it is suggested that students already have basic notions of Constitutional Law and/or Fundamental Rights. For the students enrolled in the 5-years program in Law ((laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Giurisprudenza) it is also advisable to have at least attended the class of Criminal Procedure 1.

The course aims at giving students full knowledge and awareness about how technological tools are used in the field of criminal justice and how they affect procedural forms and basic safeguards and rights. At the end of the course the students are expected to know the main uses and opportunities of new technologies in criminal proceedings, their impact on acts, forms, results and basic safeguards, and the main legislative solutions that can be used to harmonize new technologies with the efficiency and efficacy of criminal proceedings.

The course will develop the main issues of the impact of new technologies on crminal justice: personal freedom (electronic surveillance), forms of acts (instruments and tool to draft the records), investigations (interceptions, GPS monitoring), evidence (remote examination of witnesses, telematic hearings, digital evidence), decisions and judgement (artificial intelligence and decision making processes).

• 1.  (A) L. Moriarty Criminal justice technology in 21st Century Ch.C. THomas Publ. Ltd., USA, 2017

For students who attend classes, only materials used during lessons and made available or suggested by the teacher will be used to prepare the exam.
Students who do not attend classes can choose to study the book suggested above or, in alternative, the texts and materials specifically assigned, suggested and made available by the professor (in this case, a previous meeting with the professor must be asked in due time).

• Interactive lessons, use of audio-video materials, problem solving through practical cases analysis.

• The final exam, for students who attended the classes, will be both written and oral and it will be composed of: a structured intermediate test (multiple choice) on subjects developed during the lessons; a final oral test, where the students will answer one or two questions (open ended) about other subjects of the course. The final mark will be the result of the weighted average of the two marks.
  For students who did not attend the classes, the final exam will be oral and the students will have to answer three questions (open ended) about subjects of the course.
  Evaluation criteria are:: completeness of information, critical awareness of problems, correct use of technical terminology, public speaking ability.

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