Particular attention will be paid to the institutional part, dedicated to the study of the so-called European criminological schools, on the one hand, and American criminology, on the other. The second part of the course will be set up according to a monographic cut and dedicated in particular to the following topics: criminological science; the murderous crime; sexual crime and gender-based violence; illegal immigration; the phenomenon of human trafficking; racial discrimination in the criminal justice system; total institutions; victimology. Only for students from Biology Course is provided a deep study of the forensic criminology through seminars at the end of the course.