A (i)legítima expansão do direito penal a partir do procedimento da ponderação de Robert Alexy: a proporcionalidade como vetor para uma adequada releitura dos direitos fundamentais no século XXI

Abstract

The guarantee structure of Criminal Law forged in the Liberal State under the rule of Law has fulfilled greately its scope though years, being a carrier of maximum intervention content for some social classes and minimum for others. The fundamental rights or liberal principles of this legal branch always sought to legitimate and consequently, keep away the essence of discussion, the action of the Criminal Law as an efficient tool of social control, criminalizing behaviour of those with no prossible conditions to integrate the capitalist worldsystem, as well as susbstanciate illegitimacy to intervene in the individual conduct into the capiatlist world-system. There is no doubt that in the Liberal State of Law, Liberal Criminal Law played a key role in effecting essential rights and guarantees of first dimension. To whom has the Criminal Law served? The Social State of Law in Brazil hasn't had its effectiveness yet. A long list of essential social rights was only an empty promise, hope of a worthy life or a dream not lived. Society has changed, world has changed. Today's society is characterized of a high complexity in which crime has ugraded, relevant interests has emerged, finally, the features of the current world is completely different from those in wich Liberal Criminal Law or guarantees have been structured. Why does Criminal Law have to be coupled to liberalindividualist paradigm and must not modernize, suit the new society to fight efficiently the new crime? We understand that Criminal Law does not draw its legitimacy in the theory of legal system, but in the theory of positive general prevention, that is, the role played by Criminal Law would be to deny the negation created by the offending standard's behaviour, restoring its validity and credibility, acting ,therefore, contrafaticamente. In a complex society, the criminal legal system must contribute to reduce social complexity. So that modernization or expansion of criminal law occur, being suitable to society's pecularities and crime in today's world, limitation of some rights and essential individual guarantees is necessary, such limitation based on normative postulates of proportionality and reasonable terms, having as parameter the gain achieved to promote other essential rights and guarantees, however, with social content now. We do not agree with the supression of individual essential rights and guarantees, but yes, making use of postulates of pratical concordance, unity of Constitution, proportionality and reasonableness, achieve a modern, up to dade and necessary rereading of essential individual rights and guarantees, collating them with the need of fundamental rights to the public safety, as well as the effectiveness of many fundamental social rights. The effective fight against white collar crimes, economic and tax policy, corporate crimes and others will contribute to the enforcement of fundamental rights of which social class? What's the reason for such resistance in recognizing the legitimacy of modernization or expansion of criminal law? The essential rights and guarantees enshrined in the Constitution mean constitutional rights, therefore, in a pluralistic and complex society as the current one, it's common the collision between principles. On the topic of criminal law modernization or expansion, the essence of discussion is the collision between individual rights and guarantees, and social rights and guarantees. Legitimacy or illegitimacy of criminal law modernization should be inferred in this case, with measuring method the ponderation procedure developed by Robert Alexy, as well as the normative postulates applications of proportionality and reasonableness. It is imperative that criminal law overcomes liberal-individualist paradigm, changes its instrumental material to fight crime, contributes decisively in the enforcement of fundamental social rights, rescues the credibility of the general will contained in the violated standard and reduces the complexity of today's society. In which society do we want to live?