O direito penal e a (i)legitimidade da punibilidade dos crimes de perigo sob a perspectiva do risco no Estado democrático de direito

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss and analyze the (im)possibilities of crimes of danger from the constitutionalism perspective of the Democratic State of Law, pointing some indicatives concerning the ways and imbrications that such mechanism of criminal protection can generate in relation to the securities inscribed in the modern constitutional texts. Thus, in a first moment, we sought to emphasize the sociological aspects that have led a punitive intervention carried out by the criminal law to focus, so increasingly frequent, on stages prior to the damages, considering that later, an approach was realized about the dogmatic structure of different forms of criminal protection contemplated by the different formats conferred to the crimes of danger, highlighting at the end that under the perspectives of constitutional guarantees and freedom, that is, if on one hand the crimes of danger can be glimpsed as an interesting mechanism of pursuit facing the dilemmas of the risk society; on the other hand, when devoid of meaning and boundaries, certainly it has the power to provide a number of arbitraries, bringing risks to the structure of civilization contemplated by the Democratic State of Law.