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Criminal Law Expansion and the Enemy Criminal Law: It Is Among Us

Received: 21 September 2023     Accepted: 10 November 2023     Published: 6 December 2023
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The present article aims at analyzing what is understood by expansion of the criminal law. This expression was coined by the Spanish penalist Jesus Maria Sanches. We will reflect on the consequences brought by the post-industrial society to the field of criminal law with its evolutions and influences on the punitive system according to its applicability having as a measure the restrictive penalty of law and the flexibility of the citizen's guarantees, whether for more or less, depending on the seriousness of the criminal act committed. In this context we will examine what characterizes the expansion movements and its consequent punitivism that came with the birth of the enemy criminal law theory which was developed by Günther Jakobs. A brief biography of this author will be exposed then we will pass on to the analysis of his penal functionalism in which the enemy criminal law is inserted. We will identify who the enemy is in relation to what the citizen is; how the enemy expresses himself within the criminal law and its reflections in the criminal legislative production, especially the Brazilian one. In order to develop this work we applied the deductive scientific method together with the hermeneutical method and as such it can be classified as an explanatory research because it is a theoretical approach of the proposed theme.

Published in International Journal of Law and Society (Volume 6, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijls.20230604.14
Page(s) 274-282
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Keywords

Expansion, Law, Criminal, Functionalism, Enemy

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