The aim of Practical Criminal Law course is to give information about the definition, history, aim and basic principles of criminal law in the light of the new Turkish Criminal Code and give students the ability to solve problems encountered in this area by analysing related Decisions of Courts.
-Discussion, presentation, dissertation and case study
Principle Sources
-Demirbaş; Timur, Ceza Hukuku Genel Hükümler, Seçkin Yayınları, Ankara, 2009, ( ISBN 975 02 1094 5)
- Öztürk; Bahri - Erdem; Mustafa Ruhan, Uygulamalı Ceza Hukuku ve Güvenlik Tedbirleri Hukuku, Seçkin Yayınları,Ankara, 2011,( ISBN 975 02 1434 9.)
- Tezcan; Durmuş – Erdem; Mustafa Ruhan – Önok; R. Murat, Teorik ve Pratik Ceza Özel Hukuku, Seçkin 2011, (ISBN 975-02-1368-7)
- Decisions of Courts
Other Sources
-Criminal law legislations and regulations.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Definition, history and the basic principles of criminal law.
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2. Week
History, Sources and interpretation of criminal rules and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
3. Week
General theory of crime, its aim, contradictions to law and crimes and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
4. Week
Elements of crime in general, systems and the facts effective on punishment and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
5. Week
Corpus delicti, its elements and relation with the act and illegality.
OP,R,CS
6. Week
The offender, subject of the crime, the act, function of the act, theories explaining the act as elements of corpus delicti and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
7. Week
Action competence, crimes according to the type of action, crimes according to the quantity of action and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
8. Week
Presentation
9. Week
The concept of result, Offences Aggravated As A Result Of Injurious Consequences, offences according to the quantity of results and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
10. Week
Principle of causality, determination of causality, interruption of causality, objective criminal charge and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
11. Week
The concept of illegality in general, execution of mandatory provisions and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
12. Week
Execution of the order of supervisor, self defense and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
13. Week
State of necessity, use of a right and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
14. Week
Consent of the concerned body, exceeding the limits of excusatory and mitigating causes and analysing related Decisions of Courts.
OP,R,CS
15. Week
Final exams
16. Week
Final exams
17. Week
Final exams
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
20
Final Exam
1
80
Program Outcomes
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Have the ability to reach and evaluate information sources;
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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.
