The course is aimed at providing the students with the fundamental and basic concepts of the so-called General Part of Criminal Law, that is the branch of legal dogmatic whose object is, mainly, the study of the sources and the limits of validity of the criminal rule, the structure of the criminal fact, the forms of manifestation of offence and the system of penalties, criminal and not, consequent to the commission of a crime. This study finds its own proofing test in the analysis of some of the most important hypothesis of the so-called “natural” offences, such as crimes against life and personal safety and crimes against property.