Tutela penal do patrimônio histórico e cultural brasileiro e os crimes omissivos impróprios

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the intricate relationship between criminal law and environment, specifically about omissive-improper crimes wich failure to act in the protection of the Brazilian historical and cultural heritage. At first, the hypothesis appears detached from dogmatic as the historical and cultural heritage destroyed by time, because it seems to be a legal null. Described the art devices. 62 to 65 of the Environmental Crimes Law (Law 9,605 / 98) oversee the crimes against urban planning and heritage. Drawing a parallel, while Italy has a Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, the paternal legislator reserved only four 4 articles for the criminal protection of this true Brazilian multicultural treasure. So central questions that guide the discussion are: Would it be enough? The criminal environmental law would be expanding? There is a new crime resulting from the so-called risk society? What legal consequences when a protected public good is destroyed by time (non facere)? Omissive-Improper crimes failure to act could help the criminal protection of the historical and cultural heritage or suffer from legality? The legislative smallness is not indicative of low complexity. On the one hand the amount of public buildings in a state of neglect is huge in Brazil, on the other, the administrative enforcement agent does not even have data on this. The state has a legal duty to manage such protected public buildings, and therefore ""guaranteer par excellence"" of the historical and cultural heritage; and as such has also criminal liability in cases of crimes of omission. Even the mechanisms of criminal law, with all its stigmatizing power have greater range than other areas of law, thus ensuring greater effectiveness in the consideration and the effective protection of ecologically balanced environmental, consisting of conservation of cultural heritage for present and future generations.