Dos crimes ambientais na região de Sousa-PB e suas relações com as atividades agroindustriais: uma análise a partir da judicialização de ações no período de 2010 a 2018.

Abstract

The overwhelming increase in levels of environmental degradation due to the misuse of the environment has been the cause of natural disasters, becoming increasingly a matter of concern for the state, the scientific community and society at large. The real need arises to establish adequate and efficient protection through legislation to prevent the destruction of nature, raising the environment to the category of criminally protected legal property. There are those who study environmental law who resist the idea of environmental criminal protection, although it is already contemplated at the constitutional level. The objective of the present work is to analyze if, with the application of the environmental penal norms, there was a tendency to the stability of the environmental degradation in the region of Sousa-PB, as well as to determine in which proportion the exercise of the agroindustrial activities has influenced or contributed to the practice of environmental crimes. In the approach of this work the qualitative and quantitative methodology is used, aiming to assess the amount of environmental crimes during the period from 2010 to 2018, as well as to dimension the influences of the agroindustrial activities in the practice of such crimes, besides that, it seeks to verify as to the effectiveness of the judicial demands during the said period, observing the procedure and the procedural results achieved, in order to identify their contribution to the preservation of the environment. From this verification it was found that environmental criminal actions that have been or are being processed in the court of Sousa-PB, are predominantly the results of inspections that occurred occasionally, limiting the level of environmental protection; that proceedings tend to be resolved through criminal transaction. It is also noted that agro-industrial activity has a strong influence on the practice of environmental crimes (in the cultivation of plantations in permanent preservation areas, in deforestation for the clandestine supply of firewood, etc.).