O controle social como elemento de eficiência à tutela do meio ambiente.

Abstract

The diffuse crime, especially the environmental one, earned emphasis over the centuries and became part of one of the most important contemporary legal world. Therefore, after several achievements environmental movement, it’s important to ask: What would optimize the level of efficiency of social control for environmental criminal protection? As a hypothesis, one has to, although many challenges of this exercise are identified, due to the many cultural and systematic issues, the participation of society in the process of environmental protection, besides the acting of the Brazilian Government Agency for Law Enforcement and other bodies and formal social control, are essential elements for their efficiency. In this way, the present research was guided by the following general goal: analyze the efficiency of criminal environmental protection from the ministerial acting until the final result of process. Therefore, the hypothetico-deductive method is used as a method of approach, and the systemic as method of procedure, aided by the statistical, using the technique of indirect bibliographic and documentary research. The subject area shows a very socio-legal relevance, deeming of the efficacy of environmental protection is the focus of discussions in academy, in civil society and in the Brazilian jurisprudential scenario, where it’s possible to see the efforts of the legislator to polish the legal system, with a view to make a contribution to the process of criminal accountability to environmental offenders, remaining to the civil society, as well the public authorities, to take measures to make possible the effective control of environmental crime, thus, achieving a harmonious state where human development and an environmentally balanced environment are achieved.