A expansão do direito penal sob o influxo da “administrativização” dos crimes tributários: prévio exaurimento da via administrativa e ação penal nos crimes contra a ordem tributária

Abstract

As wellas current society, criminal law is also undergoing a process of intense transformation.The post-industrial society, with itsincreasingly inherent complexity, in additionto the objective and subjective demands for more security, required from criminal law an accumulative role in the processes of social regulation.There appears to be a trend in the legislation for the introduction of new criminal types, as well as the worsening of the existing ones, indicating a “reinterpretation” of the classic guarantees of the substantive criminal law as well asthe criminal procedure law.This trend, called “expansion”, has led to the creation of new “criminal legal interests", increased opportunities for legally relevant legal risks, and relaxedthe rules of attribution and relativity of political and criminal principles of guarantee.The present study was to analyze this phenomenon of expansion in addition to the fact that criminal law is becoming administrative in its relationship with tax crimes asin the Brazilian legal and criminal law and in the face of its jurisprudential reception in the Superior Courts.Rather than a topical dogmatic discussion of the tax criminal types existing in the Brazilian penal laws, the purpose of the study is co-relate the administrative phenomenon with the legislative and judicial modulation conferred upon them, to infer about the legitimacy of their own criminality.It is worth pointing the close relationbetween the theme and the independence and autonomy of administrative and criminal authorities, which iswhy suchpremise absence prevents the analysis of this matter.