Sociedade de risco e bens jurídico-penais transindividuais: argumentos favoráveis à legitimação no contexto social complexo

• Autor(a) principal: Roma, Rodrigo da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/9601
• topic: Risk society; Risk management; Penal law; Abstract danger crimes; Transindividual penal legal interest; Sociedade de risco; Gestão de riscos; Direito Penal; Crimes de perigo abstrato; Bem jurídico-penal transindividual; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO::DIREITO PUBLICO::DIREITO PENAL

The risk society theory was developed by Ulrich Beck in 1986, in his work entitled Risikogesellschaft - Auf dem Weg in eine andere Mordene. Beck proposes a new perspective for sociological research, according to which the classical parameter in the Social Sciences, based upon class conflict, should be overcome because it would be unable to clarify the complex relations inherent to modern (post-industrial) society in which the main feature is no longer the conflict between capital owners and the exploited, but actually trying to reduce or share in a fairer manner the social risks. The risk society theory was established in the context of technological progress (e.g. nuclear power, genetically modified food, etc). These new techniques made it virtually impossible to contain social risk, because it became diffuse, in other words, it affects an indetermined number of people. In this environment of increasing risk,social demands for protection through risk management instruments obtain a key role. Social feelings of unsafeness are based, mainly, upon the fact that human beings are no longer able to predict all the effects of the acts to which they are subject to on a daily basis. In the face of this new social frame, Law and especially Penal Law cannot show indifference to the need of protection. In this context, we question if the classical Penal Law which is the Penal Law produced according to the liberal bourgeois principles of the European enlightenment from the last quarter of the nineteenth century will be able to give helpful answers to a social framework so much different from the original one. A theoretical framework that fits the present day becomes necessary, while not disregarding the progress made in the field of human rights. In the present dissertation is advocated the standpoint that the objective of Penal Law is the protect legal interests, provided that, evidently, they are based on the principle of human dignity which is the inspiration to all materially democratic Law systems of the present day. The relevant role that individual penal legal interests play in containing the state s ius puniendi is undeniable. However, this theoretical instrument has to be combined to another one: the transindividual penal legal interest. As a dogmatic tecnique that aims at risk management through Penal Law, usually abstract danger crimes will be adopted. Finally, it is presented in this work how the transindividual penal legal good can the employed in fields of diffusion of risk such as genetics and the environment.