The aim of the course is to address specific issues of the general and special part of criminal law, which include the context and content of recent changes and contemporary achievements. The course participant is given an insight into the challenges that the development of society poses to criminal law and ways to adapt it. The processing of the material takes place through the research approach of the participants with mentoring to critical thinking. The content of the course is focused on selected four areas of basic institutes of the general part as well as four selected chapters of the special part of criminal law, whereby ultimately the scope and content will be directed according to the wishes of students in terms of research. Under European and comparative legal influences, Croatian criminal law has been significantly innovated in the last decade. Therefore, attention is focused on the penetration and implementation of new ideas in traditionally shaped national understandings.The content thus formed includes the notion of a criminal offense, self-defence, necessity, guilt, concurrence, and continuing criminal offense from the general part. From the special part, the content from criminal cases is envisaged acts against sexual freedom, then criminal offenses of sexual abuse and exploitation of a child, crimes against human health and selected crimes in the context of artificial intelligence. The content of this course will be conditioned by current and recent issues within the selected ones areas that mainly relate to the new challenges of the criminal justice system, the achievement of purpose criminal law as the ultima ratio of means in the context of social functioning.

After passing the exam in the course, the student will be able to: Critically analyze new ideas from selected criminal law issues, Evaluate the offered normative solutions on practical examples, Develop the possibility of their own contribution to the improvement of existing criminal law solutions., Collect and process scientific arguments pro et contra to the chosen point of view, Express and explain their views in writing and orally in scientific form., Recognize the social benefits of their own research and possible consequences,