CONTROL OF CONVENTIONALITY AND VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRATIES AGAINST CORRUPTION BY BRAZILIAN CRIMINAL LAWS
CONTROL OF CONVENTIONALITY AND VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRATIES AGAINST CORRUPTION BY BRAZILIAN CRIMINAL LAWS
Abstract
Brazil committed to fighting corruption and punishing the corrupt by signing international treaties, in which it was obliged to define crimes of misuse of public resources, and to create efficient procedural rules to investigate, prosecute and punish criminals. Has our State incorporated into its legal system the criminalization commandments and procedural precepts recommended in the United Nations Convention against corruption and the Palermo Convention? If so, is the new legislation being applied with the effective punishment of offenders? The work attempts to answer these questions using doctrinal and jurisprudential research, using deductive, inductive and hypothetical-deductive methods. In the end, it concludes that Brazilian criminal and procedural legislation has modernized, but its non-application, in many cases, contravenes the aforementioned international pacts, giving rise to control of conventionality.