A duração das medidas de segurança na perspectiva do estado democrático de direito

Abstract

This paper deals with the search, based on fundamental rights and guarantees the rule of democratic rule, as may justify that the time of maximum security measure duration should not exceed the limit of the penalty abstractly restraint applied to the offense committed, with the March the theoretical garantismo Luigi Ferrajoli. In this sense, the text initially exposes ideas about garantismo, democratic rule of law and limiting principles of jus puniendi to address the theme. From there, they are treated arguments against and in favor of stipulating a maximum duration for the security measures. The central idea of the text is based on the inability of the security measures have their maximum duration is indeterminate, in the way currently to article 97, § 1, of the Brazilian Penal Code. The garantismo as jusfilosófico model adopted in this paper, provides tools for imposing any restrictions to the time duration of the security measures. In this sense, with the principles of legality, equality, proportionality, sealing the perpetual character of penalties, legal certainty and dignity of the human person, it appears that Article 97, § 1 of the Brazilian Penal Code It is unconstitutional and that it is up to the magistrate to fix a ceiling for the implementation of security measures at the time he pronouncing the sentence. So the idea is that there should be the establishment of a period of maximum duration for security measures and that the proposal more in line with these fundamentals is the establishment of a maximum term of compliance with security measures having as limit sentence in the abstract to the crime.