The aim of the criminal law course is to inform the students about the elements of crime such as fault, attempt to commit an offence , participation in commission of a crime, joinder of offenses, sanctions and precautionary measures.
Prerequisite(s)
None
Corequisite(s)
None
Special Requisite(s)
None
Instructor(s)
Professor Dr. h.c. mult. Bahri ÖZTÜRK
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Thursday, 09.00-12.45, Şirinevler Campus Faculty of Law 6. Floor CEHAMER Twin Lecture Hall
Office Hour(s)
Asst. Prof. Özge Sırma Gezer: o.sirma@iku.edu.tr
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Discussion, presentation, dissertation and case study
Principle Sources
Öztürk; Bahri- Erdem; Mustafa Ruhan, Uygulamalı Ceza Hukuku ve Güvenlik Tedbirleri Hukuku, Seçkin Yayınları,Ankara, 2021
Demirbaş; Timur, Ceza Hukuku Genel Hükümler, Seçkin Yayınları, Ankara, 2021
Özgenç; İzzet, Türk Ceza Hukuku Genel Hükümler, Seçkin Yayınları, Ankara, 2021
Artuk; M. Emin- Gökcen; Ahmet- Alşahin;M. Emin-Çakır;Kerim, Ceza Hukuku Genel Hükümler, Adalet Yayınevi, Ankara, 2021
Zafer; Hamide-Centel; Nur- Çakmut; Özlem, Türk Ceza Hukukuna Giriş, Beta Yayınları, İstanbul, 2020
Other Sources
Criminal law legislations and regulations.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
General concept of fault, competence of culpability, timing of competence of culpability, circumstances affecting the competence of culpability
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2. Week
Theories explaining the basis of culpability, scope of culpability, types of fault
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3. Week
Concept of intent, legal basis of intent, aspects of intent, intent and motive, intensity of intent, intent in various stages of criminal action, timing of intent, types of intent
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4. Week
Concept of negligence, legal basis of negligence, aspects of negligence, forms of negligence, types of negligence, gross negligence, sanctions for negligent crimes
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5. Week
Offences aggravated as a result of injurious consequences, fault in misdemeanors, objective liability and the crimes perpetrated via media, lapse in criminal law
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6. Week
Conditions that remove culpability, unjust provocation as a condition that reduce culpability, specific forms of crime in general
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7. Week
Attempt
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8. Week
Complicity
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9. Week
Joinder of crimes (in general, joinder of statutes, successive crimes, conceptual aggregation)
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10. Week
Criminal sanctions in general, concept of punishment, theories of punishment, aspects and properties of punishment, aims of punishment, genral classification of punishments, capital punishment
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11. Week
Imprisonment, criminal fines
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12. Week
Concept of precautionary measures, legal properties, precautionary measures in Turkish criminal law
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13. Week
Designation and personalization of punishment, concepts completing the system of punishments
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14. Week
Disposition of the criminal processes
OP,R
15. Week
Final exams
16. Week
Final exams
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Final Exam
1
100
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Have the ability to reach and evaluate information sources;
PO-2
Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data;
PO-3
Have historical knowledge enabling to interpret modern law achievements;
PO-4
Have the ability to use Turkish efficiently verbally and in written;
PO-5
Have the ability to follow up professional literature at least in a foreign language;
PO-6
Have acquired professional and ethical sense of responsibility;
PO-7
Have the ability to use vocational information technologies efficiently for solution of legal problems;
PO-8
Have the ability to apply information acquired to solution of a concrete case;
PO-9
Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship among natural legal persons and have the ability to interpret such rules;
PO-10
Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship between individual and state and have the ability to interpret such rules;
PO-11
Have the ability to practice the profession as a lawyer who adopts universal principles of law;
PO-12
Have full knowledge of basic concepts and rules regarding structure and relationship manners of international community; have the ability to interpret and discuss about the foregoing;
PO-13
Have basic knowledge enabling to evaluate international community’s common issues and their possible solutions;
PO-14
Have knowledge enabling to apply to human rights bodies having a supranational judicial quality and to follow up the process;
PO-15
Have knowledge on European Union Acquis Communautaire and operation of its institutions;
PO-16
Have a world view enabling to question, criticize and develop law in direction with needs of humanity;
PO-17
Have knowledge on historical development process of jurisprudence and judicial systems;
PO-18
Have the ability to solve actual legal problems within the frame of contemporary legal approaches;
PO-19
Be at the level of understanding and knowledge which reflects all qualities in the best way required by the profession on national and international scale;
PO-20
Have full knowledge of legal arrangements and practices regarding economic and financial mechanisms;
PO-21
Have knowledge on historical development of rights of individuals and societies and on basic texts adopted during the process;
PO-22
Have the ability to express himself individually and before a group;
PO-23
Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data;
PO-24
Have the ability to follow up regulations and legal quests in order to meet new needs appeared within the frame of relationships between individuals;
PO-25
Have the ability to cooperate by implementing activities during courses, hypothetical law suits and judicial studies and other vocational and academic visits;
PO-26
Have the ability to understand and handle national and international dimensions of law, jurisprudence and practices by means of follow up;
PO-27
Have knowledge of international judicial bodies and their ways of operation.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Have knowledge of the concept of fault and legal negligence
LO-2
Have knowledge of the concept of fault, intent and negligence
LO-3
Have knowledge of mistake, excusatory and mitigating causes and unjust provocation
LO-4
Understand the special conditions of an offence such as attempt to commit an offence , participation in commission of a crime, joinder of offenses
LO-5
Have knowledge of the concept of victim and injured
LO-6
Learn sanctions and precautionery measures
LO-7
Have knowledge of the dismissal of an action and vacation of punishment
LO-8
Have knowledge of the field of application of criminal law