Acquire a systematic understanding of the execution of sentences and security measures, with particular attention to their constitutional foundations and to the aims of punishment at the enforcement stage. Understand the main mechanisms for adjusting the enforcement of custodial sentences (suspension, substitution and parole), as well as the tensions between prevention, retribution and reintegration. Understand Prison Law as a subsystem of the execution of criminal sanctions, including its scope, normative sources and constitutional limits, and critically assess the relationship between the legal framework and the reality of custodial enforcement. Analyse the legal¿prison relationship and the main institutions of the prison system (classification, prison regime, treatment and relations with the outside world), in light of the applicable legislation and constitutional and criminal case law. Develop a critical capacity with regard to penitentiary criminal policy, the applicable legal framework and its jurisprudential interpretation. This course is fully aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 4 on Gender Equality and Goal 16 on Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

K3: Master the fundamental concepts and principles of the different sectors of the legal system. K6: To know the legal tools and instruments applicable to the interpretation and integration of the legal system, as well as to the resolution of conflicts, in the field of Public Law. K10: To know the institutional organisation of the State and the international and community organisations of which it is a part. S3: Apply the necessary skills to search for information in the different legal sources (legal, jurisprudential and doctrinal).

PART I: Execution of Sentences and Security Measures § 1. Introduction to the system of legal consequences of crime § 2. The legal system of penalties in Spanish criminal law: typology and general rules of enforcement § 3. Suspension and substitution of custodial sentences § 4. The system of security measures § 5. Execution of security measures PART II: Execution of custodial sentences (Prison Law) § 6. Prison Law. Scope and legislation § 7. The legal¿prison relationship § 8. Penal institutions § 9. Prison classification § 10. Prison regime § 11. Disciplinary regime § 12. Prison treatment (I). General aspects § 13. Prison treatment (II). Prison work § 14. Relations with the outside world: communications, visits, temporary leave and escorted outings § 15. Prison benefits

The classes have a theoretical-practical character. The essential contents of the course program will be explained. The explanations will be complemented with examples and practical cases. The active participation of the students in the discussion and analysis of each of the points of the program will be encouraged. Support materials will be used and will be made available to the students, who will have to complement it with the bibliography recommended by the teachers of the course. The tutorials will be, as a general rule, individual, in the day and hour fixed by the teaching staff of the subject. They will be focused on resolving doubts about the contents of the course and on deepening in those aspects that the student requires and requests. In this course, students must not use artificial intelligence tools to complete any assignments or exercises set by the lecturer. Should a student¿s use of AI result in academic fraud by falsifying the outcomes of an exam or assignment required to demonstrate academic performance, the provisions of the Regulations of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid implementing, in part, Law 3/2022 of 24 February on university coexistence shall apply.