Redução do prazo prescricional para menores relativos: um direito à impunidade?

Abstract

This work is investigated to differential treatment in the criminal sphere given that individual adult, able, however, worthy of count of prescriptive’s deadline in half, the so-called in “relative minority”. It has the purpose of analysis of the institute of prescriptive’s deadline in the crimes they committed and their collaboration with inapplicability of law, in cases of shortening of time. Bibliographic research and field research in judgments from the TJCE, as a way of prove impunity arising from such decisions. Found that not consistent maintenance of articles of the Penal Code dealing with relative minority, because they deal with unnecessary care men who own full capacity to self-designate that it is an antinomy to the homeland legal system, owing, like this, be extinct and that together to judicial delay provides proliferation of impunity, beyond the sense of injustice that afflicts the victims' families.