THE SPECIAL PART OF CRIMINAL CODE BETWEEN CODIFICATION AND DECODIFICATION: SUGGESTIONS FOR AN INITIAL APPROACH

• Autor(a) principal: Giamberardino, André Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/direito/article/view/17038
• topic: Direito Penal; Codificação; Parte Especial; Constitucionalização; Criminal Law; Codification; Special Part of Criminal Code; Constitutionalisation

The study of the “special part” of the Penal Code provides an introductory propositionfrom many angles of approach, which emphasizes its importance whereas it’s often in this field that theprinciples and guarantees established by the Constitution and by the theory of Criminal Law presentedin the “general part” are undermined. First of all there is the question of the profusion of special penallaws, outside the Penal Code, and how the movements of modern codification and the latest decodificationtake place in the legislative history of Brazilian criminal law. Secondly, it is suggested that the reductionof the intervention of criminal law requires a better control of legitimacy of the special part, underconstitutional parameters. On the one hand it concerns the legislature, reducing the possibility of primarycriminalization to the strictly necessary cases which concern the harm to a fundamental right referredby the Constitution. On the other hand also the judicial interpretation should be constitutionalized,through the approximation between the study of the special part and the subject of the constitutionalitycontrol, specially by its diffused model.