Pesquisa de opinião sobre a redução da idade penal no Brasil: o que pensam os acadêmicos do curso de Direito da Unifesspa?

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the criminal discourses of the law students of the Federal University of Southern and Southeastern Brazil, UNIFESSPA, Campus de Marabá, seeking to identify, in these discourses, the presence or absence of Abolitionism, Maximalism and Minimalism. Theoretical basis, the classification of these three criminal currents, suggested by the jurist Rogério Greco, in the book "Penal Law of the balance". For that, the data were collected through an objective and subjective questionnaire, where the scholars critically developed their positions on the reduction of the penal age in Brazil. We performed a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data obtained, attempting to identify the criminal discourses. In the theoretical approach, we deal with Abolitionism and its criticisms of criminal law and the prison system, proposing socio-educational and moralizing measures; Of Maximalism, which brings the sloogan “Law and Order”, proposing the increase and severity of penalties to the highest degree; And, of Minimalism, theory that aims at the application of Criminal Law in last ratio. In conclusion, we discuss the absence of minimalist reasoning among UNIFESSPA legal scholars.