Magister Legum - LLM / In this thesis I analysed the suitability and effectiveness of the criminal sanction with regards to compliance and enforcement in South African environmental law. My central argument is that the criminal sanction is not the perfect mechanism to address compliance and enforcement in South African environmental law sufficiently. Compliance and enforcement of South African environmental law has been a stumbling block for years since the implementation of the first piece of environmental legislation. Thus I explored compliance and enforcement in South Africa and identified the various issues that might be the reasons why compliance and enforcement in South African environmental law is not up to standard. I also analysed criminal environmental enforcement and came to the conclusion that criminal law is not suitable for the exclusive enforcement of environmental law. The conclusion was drawn by also analysing the criminal environmental enforcement statistics and the administrative compliance and civil action statistics of 2014-2019 in South Africa. Criminal law possesses too many inherent weaknesses and with our overcrowded criminal justice system there is no capacity for presiding officers to properly apply their mind when adjudicating environmental offences Thus I explored the alternatives to the criminal sanction and discussed and evaluated the different compliance and enforcement mechanisms in our legislative framework. I came to the conclusion that our legislative framework is sufficient to deal with environmental offences and that no new pieces of legislation need to be passed. There are various other compliance and enforcement mechanisms within our legislative framework that are better suited to deal with environmental offences.I came to the conclusion that the reasons for South Africa’s failure in compliance and enforcement in environmental law is due to those responsible for compliance and enforcement lacking the necessary capacity, skill and resources to firstly ensure that the laws are complied with and enforce it when it is not complied with. I also argue for the resurrection of environmental courts in South Africa in light of the successes in foreign jurisdictions. My concluding argument is that the criminal sanction still has a role to play in environmental compliance and enforcement in South Africa, however not as a primary mechanism.

The dissertation thesis The position of security detention in the system of criminal sanctions has a theoretical character with the aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the development, implementation and the up to date application of security detention. In connection with the study and factual analysis of the issue, the thesis was divided in several chapters. The content and meaning of some basic terms is defined in the first chapter. The second chapter reflects the development of security detention from the perspective of a broader legal comparison and the legislative process of the Act on Security detention execution. The chapter is focuses on pointing out the complexity and pitfalls of security detention development. The third chapter is devoted to the legal regulation of security detention in the current legal system and is divided into subchapters to interpret the individual legal regulations. The fourth chapter is dedicated to the personality of the offender and basic criminal liability. The fifth chapter is designed to point out the category of offenders from a medical perspective. Chapter six then deals with the application of security detention itself and the constitution in the Czech Republic describing the quality of life of inmates. The last chapter of the thesis focuses on the post-detention care itself. The interpretative analysis of primary and secondary sources showed that security detention is an inevitable part of protective measures in terms of increasing the usability of this measure and simultaneously fulfilling the capacity of security detention institutes in the Czech Republic.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo a análise do princípio da humanidade no Direito Penal Brasileiro e as violações a este princípio que ocorrem na aplicação de uma sanção criminal. Serão estudados alguns textos internacionais que contribuíram para o desenvolvimento deste princípio, bem como as consequências de sua adoção no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, com a análise das penas que são proibidas pela Constituição Federal. Serão analisadas, também, a pena privativa de liberdade, a medida de segurança e a medida socioeducativa, que são alcançadas por este princípio, de modo a verificar como ocorrem as violações do princípio ora em estudo em cada uma dessas sanções. Ao fim, serão apresentadas essas violações de modo a compreender o papel que cada um dos operadores do Direito tem de proteção à dignidade e aos direitos fundamentais das pessoas que cometem infrações criminais. / This paper aims at analyzing the principle of humanity in the Brazilian Criminal Law and the violations of this principle that occur in the application of criminal sanctions. Some international texts that contributed to the development of this principle will be studied, as well as the consequences of their adoption in the Brazilian legal system, with the analysis of the criminal penalties that are forbidden by the Federal Constitution. Will also be analyzed the penalty of deprivation of liberty, the involuntary psychiatric treatment and the socio-educational measures, which are reached by this principle, to check how the violations of the principle being studied occur in each of these sanctions. At the end, these violations will be presented in order to understand the role that each person has to protect the dignity and fundamental rights of the people who commit criminal offenses.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo a análise do princípio da humanidade no Direito Penal Brasileiro e as violações a este princípio que ocorrem na aplicação de uma sanção criminal. Serão estudados alguns textos internacionais que contribuíram para o desenvolvimento deste princípio, bem como as consequências de sua adoção no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, com a análise das penas que são proibidas pela Constituição Federal. Serão analisadas, também, a pena privativa de liberdade, a medida de segurança e a medida socioeducativa, que são alcançadas por este princípio, de modo a verificar como ocorrem as violações do princípio ora em estudo em cada uma dessas sanções. Ao fim, serão apresentadas essas violações de modo a compreender o papel que cada um dos operadores do Direito tem de proteção à dignidade e aos direitos fundamentais das pessoas que cometem infrações criminais. / This paper aims at analyzing the principle of humanity in the Brazilian Criminal Law and the violations of this principle that occur in the application of criminal sanctions. Some international texts that contributed to the development of this principle will be studied, as well as the consequences of their adoption in the Brazilian legal system, with the analysis of the criminal penalties that are forbidden by the Federal Constitution. Will also be analyzed the penalty of deprivation of liberty, the involuntary psychiatric treatment and the socio-educational measures, which are reached by this principle, to check how the violations of the principle being studied occur in each of these sanctions. At the end, these violations will be presented in order to understand the role that each person has to protect the dignity and fundamental rights of the people who commit criminal offenses.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-06-06T12:06:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Anaclara Pedroso Fernandes Valentim da Silva.pdf: 1490477 bytes, checksum: 078eed46a15ac8b4076f9eb4ce9485b2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-06T12:06:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Anaclara Pedroso Fernandes Valentim da Silva.pdf: 1490477 bytes, checksum: 078eed46a15ac8b4076f9eb4ce9485b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The resocializing purpose of the penalty, in the course of history, has been placed as its primary purpose. This claim is supported by the fact that some of the dogmatic theories on the subject never exclude it as the ultimate goal of the sanction or even place it as a limitation on other purposes, as for example in Claus Roxin's Dialectic Theory. Moreover, the Brazilian legal system, if analyzed in a systematic way, prioritizes re-education and social reintegration of the convicted in society, which demonstrates crystal proof because the Law on the Execution of Criminal Sanctions contains numerous resocializing mechanisms to be applied. The purpose of this study is to analyze, through the hypothetical-deductive method, whether the hypothesis of resocialization of the condemned prisoner is a myth, besides being essentially obedient to the guiding values of the national legal system and likewise being a motivating purpose of numerous legal institutes included in the Law on the Execution of Criminal Sanctions. Thus, it was verified that social integration is not really implemented, either because it is not in fact the purpose of the intended penalty or because of the dysfunctional use of the available legal instruments, it became only a legitimating speech of the existence of the sentence and has as a consequence the mistaken production of legal and legislative decisions, impacting significantly on the criminal policy adopted by the State / A finalidade ressocializadora da pena, no decorrer da história, vem sendo colocada como finalidade precípua da pena. Tal afirmação encontra respaldo no fato de algumas das teorias dogmáticas a respeito do tema nunca a excluírem como objetivo final da sanção penal ou mesmo a colocarem como limitação das demais finalidades, como acontece, por exemplo, na Teoria Mista Dialética, de Claus Roxin. No mais, o ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, se analisado de forma sistemática, prioriza a reeducação e a reintegração social do condenado, o que resta cristalinamente comprovado no texto da Lei de Execução Penal, do qual constam inúmeros mecanismos ressocializadores. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar, através do método hipotético-dedutivo, a hipótese da ressocialização do condenado à pena de prisão ser um mito, ainda que essencialmente obediente aos valores norteadores do ordenamento jurídico nacional, além de ser finalidade motivadora de inúmeros institutos jurídicos constantes da Lei de Execução Penal. Assim, se comprovará que a integração social não é verdadeiramente implementada, quer seja por não ser de fato a finalidade da pena pretendida ou por uso disfuncional dos instrumentos legais disponíveis, tornando-se apenas um discurso legitimador da existência da pena e que tem como consequência a produção equivocada de decisões jurídicas e legislativas, impactando significativamente na política criminal adotada pelo Estado

Thesis (LLM)--Stellenbosch University, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to determine standards or criteria to be used when deciding on the optimal use of the criminal sanction and to evaluate the efficacy of such criteria by applying them to an existing crime, namely incest. Since criminal punishment necessarily impacts negatively on the human rights of those subject to it, it is submitted that it should only be used as a last resort where it is absolutely necessary to do so. Relevant constitutional provisions and other legal sources are examined and used as the basis for expounding a test for determining the circumstances under which it is appropriate to criminalise. It is argued that the decision to utilise the criminal sanction may be tested against certain guidelines: the state bears the burden of showing, firstly, that the rationale of the crime in question is theoretically justifiable in that criminalisation serves a worthy state purpose; and secondly, that criminalisation is reasonable, being both practically desirable and effective in achieving legitimate state goals in the least restrictive manner possible. In the second part of the thesis, the proposed criteria are applied to the common law crime of incest. An initial discussion of the crime indicates that a wide range of conduct is punishable as incest, including both extremely harmful conduct, such as the rape of a child by her father, and completely innocuous behaviour, for instance private sexual intercourse between consenting adults who are merely related by marriage. Next, an attempt is made to ascertain the true rationale for criminalising incest and then to establish whether such rationale is justifiable. The conclusion is reached that despite there being good grounds for punishing certain manifestations of incest, the only reason for imposing criminal punishment that is valid in all instances, is the unconvincing contention that the state is justified in prohibiting incest merely because incest is regarded as morally abhorrent. And even assuming that targeting and preventing undesirable forms of harmful or offensive conduct is a justifiable purpose of the incest prohibition, it is nevertheless submitted that criminalising incest is unreasonable, since the crime as it is presently formulated is both over- and under-inclusive for the effective realisation of any praiseworthy aims. After testing incest against the criteria developed, the recommendation is made that incest be decriminalised. It is contended that there are sufficient alternative criminal prohibitions available that would adequately punish harmful incestuous conduct without simultaneously unreasonably limiting the rights of consenting adults to choose their sexual (or marriage) partner without state interference. Decriminalisation would not only prevent potential violations of human rights, but the legitimacy of the criminal justice system as a whole would be considerably enhanced if it were apparent that the criminal sanction was reserved for conduct truly deserving of punishment. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die oogmerk van hierdie studie is om standaarde of riglyne daar te stel ter aanwending waar besluit word oor die optimale benutting van die strafsanksie, asook om die doeltreffendheid van sulke riglyne vas te stel deur die toepassing daarvan op 'n bestaande misdaad, naamlik bloedskande. Aangesien straf altyd 'n nadelige uitwerking op die menseregte van dié wat daaraan onderhewig is, het, word aan die hand gedoen dat dit slegs as 'n laaste uitweg aangewend moet word indien absoluut noodsaaklik. Ondersoek word ingestel na toepaslike grondwetlike bepalings en ander regsbronne, wat gebruik word as grondslag vir 'n toets ten einde te bepaalonder welke omstandighede kriminalisasie gepas is. Daar word aan die hand gedoen dat die besluit om gebruik te maak van 'n strafsanksie teen sekere riglyne getoets kan word. Die staat dra die bewyslas om aan te toon, eerstens, dat die bestaansrede vir die betrokke misdaad teoreties regverdigbaar is aangesien krimininalisasie 'n waardige staatsdoel dien; en tweedens, dat kriminalisasie redelik is, aangesien dit prakties wenslik is, asook die staat se legitieme doelwitte dien op effektiewe wyse op die mees onbeperkende wyse moontlik. In die tweede gedeelte van die verhandeling word die voorgestelde riglyne op die gemeenregtelike misdaad bloedskande toegepas. 'n Aanvanklike bespreking van die misdaad dui daarop dat die trefwydte van bloedskande sodanig is dat dit gedrag insluit wat uiters benadelend is, soos byvoorbeeld die verkragting van 'n kind deur haar vader, maar ook heeltemal onskadelike optrede soos byvoorbeeld geslagsverkeer tussen toestemmende volwassenes wat bloot aanverwante is. Die volgende stap is om die ware bestaansrede vir die verbod op bloedskande vas te stel en daarna te oorweeg of sodanige bestaansrede regverdigbaar is. Die gevolgtrekking is dat alhoewel daar goeie gronde vir die bestrawwing van sekere verskyningsvorme van bloedskande is, die enigste altyd-geldende rede vir strafoplegging in hierdie verband die onoortuigende bewering dat bloedskande moreelonverdraaglik beskou word, is. Selfs al word daar aanvaar dat die identifikasie en voorkoming van onwenslike verskyningsvorme van skadelike of aanstootlike gedrag 'n regverdigbare doel vir die bloedskandeverbod is, voer die skrywer nie te min aan dat die kriminalisasie van bloedskande onredelik is omrede die huidige misdaadomskrywing tegelykertyd beide oor- en onder- inklusief is om einge moontlike goeie doelwitte effektief te bereik. Nadat bloedskande getoets word teen die riglyne wat ontwikkel is, word aanbeveel dat bloedskande gedekriminaliseer word. Daar word aan die hand gedoen dat daar genoegsame alternatiewe strafbepalings is wat aangewend kan word om skadelike gedrag wat onder die misdaad bloedskande resorteer te bestraf sonder dat die regte van toestemmende volwassenes om sonder staatsinmenging hul seksuele- (of huweliks-) maat te kies onredelik ingeperk word. Dekriminalisasie sal nie slegs moontlike menseregteskendings voorkom nie, maar ook die legitimiteit van die strafregstelsel as geheel bevorder deurdat dit duidelik blyk dat die strafsankie reserveer word vir optrede wat werklik straf verdien.

Le traitement judiciaire des auteurs de violences commises au sein du couple a connu une évolution manifeste comme le démontre la première partie de l’étude. Cette évolution apparaît à travers le dévoilement de ces violences par la société et par le droit ainsi que par la spécificité du traitement en direction de ces auteurs. Les mutations de la politique criminelle française tendent à un accroissement de la répression des auteurs de ces violences, marquées par une accélération législative en droit interne et l’influence du droit international et européen sur celui-ci. La seconde partie de l’étude met en avant les limites du traitement judiciaire des auteurs de violences commises au sein du couple. Certaines de ses limites sont structurelles, et dépendent des difficultés générales rencontrées par la justice, d’autres sont des limites juridiques. Enfin, certaines limites se manifestent au stade du prononcé des peines et de leur exécution. Interroger les limites ne conduit pas à nier leur possible dépassement, comme l’y invite l’étude. / The judicial treatment of the perpetrators of conjugal violence has evolved since its inception, as this study’s first part intends to demonstrate. The evolution becomes apparent through the exposure of such violence by society and by law as well as the need for specific treatment for perpetrators of conjugal violence. The permutations in French criminal policy lean towards increasing severity in sentencing, marked by legislative acceleration in domestic law as well as the influence of European and international law. The second part of this study examines the limits of the judicial treatment of the perpetrators. Some of its limits are structural, contingent on general difficulties encountered in court, while others are legal limits. Finally, certain limits occur during the sentencing and the implementation of the sentence. To question the limits is not to deny the possibility of overcoming them, as this study argues.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação LucianovBANCA24072018.pdf: 957467 bytes, checksum: 595bb85411e7a77402522fe02b5ebf93 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-25 / Esta dissertação visa elucidar as sanções aplicadas pelas autoridades brasileiras em resposta aos erros e às fraudes no uso do Acordo de Valoração Aduaneira nas atividades de importação. A narrativa é orientada por um caso real prático, que é utilizado no decorrer do trabalho para exemplificar, na prática aduaneira os efeitos dos assuntos abordados. Primeiro é apresentado o Acordo de Valoração Aduaneira e os seis métodos de valoração aduaneira previstos no acordo internacional. Em seguida, é feita a diferenciação entre o erro na aplicação do acordo e a fraude, classificando o primeiro como subvaloração e o segundo como subfaturamento. É realizada uma análise, sob a ótica do Direito Administrativo e Tributário Sancionador, para avaliar as sanções aplicáveis às duas práticas, comparando a prática brasileira com as previsões normativas contidas no Acordo de Valoração Aduaneira. Neste capítulo, ainda, é abordado o conflito entre as disposições contidas nas normas internas da Receita Federal do Brasil e o conteúdo do Acordo de Valoração Aduaneira, sob a ótica da hierarquia dos tratados na legislação tributária brasileira. No capítulo seguinte são apresentados os tipos penais de contrabando e descaminho e identificado qual deles é aplicável para as práticas de subvaloração e subfaturamento. O capítulo final consolida as críticas à legislação interna brasileira, terminando com uma proposta de lege ferenda para alteração dos dispositivos que não privilegiam a aplicação do AVA nos casos de valoração aduaneira nas importações. Neste contexto o presente trabalho tem como objetivo identificar se a aduana brasileira faz uso da normativa internacional para verificação do valor aduaneiro, se há diferença entre o subfaturamento e a subvaloração para fins de qualificação da conduta como criminosa ou não, quais as sanções administrativas e os tipos penais que atraem a subsunção da prática de subfaturamento, suas características e, por fim, sugerir alterações normativas de modo a esclarecer aos operadores do direito qual o procedimento a ser adotado pela aduana para verificação do valor aduaneiro e as sanções aplicáveis quando comprovada tal prática. A metodologia utilizada nas pesquisas envolveu consultas à jurisprudência e análise da legislação vigente e da rotina de atividades aduaneiras. Foi possível identificar a falta de correspondência da legislação aduaneira brasileira com os dispositivos do Acordo de Valoração Aduaneira, as diferenças entre subfaturamento e subvaloração, e também as consequências penais originadas destas práticas. / This work aims to explain how the Brazilian Customs Authorities have been imposing sanctions provided in the Customs Valuation Agreement (CVA) in response to both errors and frauds commited in import activities. The narrative is based on a real case, which is described herein to demonstrate how the issues at hand are addressed in customs practice. Firstly we begin by presenting the CVA and the six methods of customs valuation provided in the International Agreement, followed by an explanation on the distinction between errors and fraud, which designates the first as under-valuation and the second as under-invoicing. In the following chapter, we study the differences in approach to the sanctions from both a Brazilian Administrative and Tax Law perspective comparing the Brazilian practice with the legal rules contained in the CVA. The following chapter presents the criminal types of smuggling and import tax fraud as a means to identify which of them is applicable to under-valuation and under-invoicing practices. The final chapter further scrutinizes the Brazilian domestic legislation, culminating in the proposal of a new Bill of Law seeking to change the provisions that have an adverse impact on the application of the CVA to import customs valuation. In the context of the foregoing, the objective of this work is to identify whether the Brazilian customs use international regulations to determine the customs value; whether there is a difference between under-invoicing and under-valuation for the purposes of ascertaining the conduct as criminal or not; which administrative sanctions and criminal penalties should apply to the act of under invoicing; and finally, to suggest normative changes as means to clarify to the legal community the procedure to be adopted by the customs authority in determining the value of goods and the applicable penalties if an offense is committed. The methodology used in the research involved case law consultations and analysis of the current legislation and routine customs activities. It was possible to identify the lack of correspondence between the Brazilian Customs legislation and the provisions of the CVA, as well as the differences between under-invoicing and under-valuation and the criminal consequences resulting from these two practices.

La probation a été introduite dans la législation bulgare en 2002 (JO, n° 92/2002). Lenouvel article 42a est apparu dans le Code pénal, définissant la probation comme « unensemble de mesures de contrôle et de traitement non privatives de liberté » et la classantparmi les peines de notre droit répressif (par la même loi, les peines d’assignation à unelocalité sans privation de liberté et d’interdiction d’habiter dans une localité déterminée ontété supprimées). Les mesures de probation se divisent en obligatoires et facultatives. Lespremières sont : 1. enregistrement obligatoire 1 et 2. rendez-vous périodiques obligatoiresavec l’agent de probation2. Les secondes, dont le tribunal peut infliger une ou plusieurs, sont :1. restrictions de la liberté de déplacement3 ; 2. participation aux stages de qualificationprofessionnelle, programmes de traitement social 4 ; 3. travail correctionnel 5 ; 4. travaild’intérêt général6.En droit français la probation est introduite en 1958 sous la forme d’un nouveau typede sursis – « le sursis avec mise à l’épreuve ». Il est créé par « l’attachement » d’un régimecomposé de différentes mesures au sursis simple que la France connaît depuis 1891 et dans le cadre duquel la seule obligation pour le condamné est de ne pas violer de nouveau la loipénale. Le législateur français, en adoptant cette approche, a respecté la conception classiquede la probation qui apparaît sous sa forme moderne, comme un tel type de sursis justement,aux USA et en Angleterre au XIX siècle. / The main goal of the dissertation is to provide an analysis of the legal nature of the probation in the Bulgarian criminal law. The probation was firstly introduced in the Bulgarian legislation in 2002. The purpose of the probation was to become a new penalty type in the system of criminal sanctions of the Bulgarian Penal Code. In the positive Bulgarian law the probation is a sanction made up of six separate measures.Undoubtedly, the probation is a product of the Anglo-Saxon legal system. It is a classic Anglo-Saxon version of the well-known criminal institute "conditional sentence".In France, where the term of probation is not a legal term, it is traditionally assumed that it indicates precisely a specific type of conditional sentence - "conditional sentencing in for testing" which bears the specifics of the Anglo-Saxon probation.The dissertation presents, by adhering to the historical and comparative methods, that the natural and logical role of the probation in the repressive matter is not to be a penalty but a combination of other type of criminal sanctions - security measures.The dissertation also presents the practical purpose of such perception of the probation, which should lead to significant legislative changes in its regulation in the Bulgarian law.

A presente tese tem por objetivo central investigar a legitimidade da adoção do monitoramento eletrônico como sanção autônoma no sistema de justiça penal brasileiro. Para tanto, parte-se da perspectiva do controle social formal no contexto das sociedades tecnológicas e de riscos, no qual a prisão e o monitoramento estão inseridos, e traça-se um paralelo entre as sanções penais adotadas ao longo do desenvolvimento do Direito Penal e a evolução da sociedade. Enfocando o instituto do monitoramento eletrônico de presos, a tese aborda seu conceito, origens, espécies, evolução tecnológica, finalidades, modelos e aspectos constitucionais, tanto no Brasil, como em outros países. A partir de uma análise crítica de seu tratamento normativo, a nível federal e estadual, formulam-se proposições com o objetivo de preservar os direitos individuais dos monitorados, garantindo-se a idoneidade do sistema de monitoramento eletrônico como espécie de sanção penal, em harmonia com as finalidades preventiva e retributiva da pena, mas sem se descurar da sua potencialidade como instrumento de redução da superpopulação carcerária brasileira. / The objective of the present dissertation is to investigate the legitimacy of adopting electronic monitoring as a stand alone sanction in the Brazilian system of criminal justice. The concept of formal social control in the context of technological risk societies, of which detention and monitoring are intrinsic parts, allows a parallel to be drawn between the penalties adopted throughout the evolution of society and the development of the Criminal justice system. This dissertation analyzes the concept of electronic monitoring of detainees, the origins of this practice, and its types, technological evolution, purposes, models and constitutional aspects in Brazil as well as in other countries. Based on a critical analysis of the normative aspects of electronic monitoring at the federal and state levels, proposals are formulated in order to safeguard individual rights while ensuring the suitability of the system as a type of criminal sanction in keeping with the preventive and retributive purposes of justice. The potential presented by this type of sanction as a means to reduce prison overpopulation in Brazil must not however be overlooked.