Study:
Code:	61279
ECTS:	4.0
Course coordinators:

Literature:

Description:

The concept of a misdemeanor (minor offence) and law of misdemeanor. Difference from other criminal offences. The relation between penal procedure and delictal suit. Comparative legal survey of concepts of misdemeanors and law of misdemeanors. Historical survey of the development of Croatian law of misdemeanor. Sources of the law of misdemeanor and their validity. General part of substantive law of misdemeanor: misdemeanor, authorities to decide on sanctions, the principle of legality, doing and not doing, guilt, kinds of sanctions for offences, sentences, statute of limitations, other institutes of the general part of substantive law of misdemeanor. A survey of the special part of substantive law of misdemeanor: offences against traffic safety, financial offences, offences against public peace and order, offences against copyright and related rights, selection from other important laws that regulate offences. Offence procedure. The principle of fairness, the principle of economical quality, the principle of directness, verbal evidence, publicity and contradiction. Actual jurisdiction for conducting offence proceedings: courts and administrative bodies. Instituting offence proceedings. Findings of administrative bodies. Misdemeanor charge. Request to institute offence proceedings. Hearing before magistrates? court/administrative body. Law of evidence in offence proceedings. Kinds of decision in offence proceedings. Legal remedies. Effectuation of formal decision. Effectuation of a fine and custodial sentence. Supplementary imprisonment. Realisation of other measures.

Cognitive Skills:

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
After successfully mastering the course students will be able to:
- Explain the concept of misdemeanor law and its relationship to other branches of law and the relationship between the offense and other criminal activity;
- Critically evaluate and recognize the importance of respecting fundamental general principles of misdemeanor law and procedure (the principle of legality, the principle of justice, etc.);
- Understand and explain the fundamental institutions of misdemeanor law and procedure (kind of misdemeanor sanctions, mandatory misdemeanor warrant, etc.);
- Define the special features of misdemeanor sanctions (imposition, enforcement, etc.).
- Grouped individual violations by objects of misdemeanor protection and summarize the most important characteristics of offenses (offenses against traffic safety,
- Financial offenses, offenses against public order, domestic violence offenses, offenses of violence on the sports field, etc.).
- Set aside the basic features of the system of liability of legal persons for the offenses.

APPLICATION
After successfully mastering the course students will be able to:
- Interpret concepts of the general part of misdemeanor law and procedure, the characteristics of certain offenses and the content of certain procedural actions in misdemeanor proceedings;
- Demonstrate mutual conditionality and connectivity general and special part of the misdemeanor rights;
- Apply the knowledge gained from the general and special part of the misdemeanor rights in practice;
- Use and the correct way to interpret the regulations in the field of misdemeanor law  in their daily work.

ANALYSIS
After successfully mastering the course students will be able to:
- Check the level and extent of realizing the principle of the rule of law in the area of administrative law and practice;
- Compare the Croatian misdemeanor law system with misdemeanor systems of other countries and to examine its compliance with European Union law;
- Set aside dysfunctional norms misdemeanor law and examine the causes and consequences of creating such standards;
- Examine and categorize the different theoretical models of misdemeanor law and their application in the case law;
- Analyze the existing case law in the area of misdemeanor law;

SYNTHESIS
After successfully mastering the course students will be able to:
- Propose the necessary changes in administrative law and jurisprudence;
- Prepare the surface for expert analysis of individual institutes misdemeanor law;
- Formulate basic features, advantages and disadvantages of the legal and judicial penalisation policy and propose solutions for improving these systems;
- Build a methodological system for making written works in the field of misdemeanor law;
- Devise a protocol writing of the work, to formulate appropriate hypotheses and draw up a concept with the model work of literature;

EVALUATION
After successfully mastering the course students will be able to:
- Evaluate the quality, sustainability and feasibility of legal and theoretical institute misdemeanor rights in practical terms;
- Choose further study of individual segments of misdemeanor law and evaluate which is the most appropriate area for further sub-specialization;
- Evaluate national misdemeanor law system in terms of constitutional and international law.

Practical and Generic Skills:

After successfully mastering the course students will be able to:
- To publicly present the learning outcomes;
- Quality is clear and legally express the respective level of argumentation own thesis;
- Improve communication skills;
- Participate in teamwork.

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

1. Written and oral examination to verify the outcomes of learning - knowledge and understanding
2. Problem sheets to verify the learning outcomes - application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation-
3. Grades will be given during class with the appropriate learning outcome and finally the written and oral examination in the course. In the latter will be grades obtained during the semester to take into account in the formulation of the final grade. The criteria for evaluation are all learning outcomes - demonstrated knowledge and understanding of matter misdemeanor law, the ability to apply regulations on hypothetical and real cases from the judicial practice, the ability of analysis and synthesis and evaluation of appropriate content adopted during class.

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