Cibercrimes: a aplicação da legislação penal Brasileira aos crimes contra a honra praticados pela internet.

Abstract

Technological advances mean that society will change in order to fit into this new technological developments. Coming this is the internet, which plays a key role in communication among people. Thus, your presence and subsequent interference coexistence and culture of these, as well as in the legal environment, it becomes undeniable. Its advent has brought benefits and harms for everyone and should be inseparable from the performance of legal sciences regarding criminal conduct arising from the internet. The rapid spread of the Internet and its breadth and depth, derived from the virtual space are factors that contribute to the lack of laws abridging malpractices practiced in this way, as with conflicts of jurisdiction and sovereignty among the countries due to transnational character of the internet. Given this stir, sought to address honor crimes committed over the Internet, emphasizing inquiry about the need to establish new orders in order to classify and regrar such criminal conduct, observing the principle of legality. Honor receives support both constitutional as infra, given its impressive character for the man. The research was based on the doctrine and legislation, based on the deductive method, based on the crime in general until crimes against honor. Hermeneutic method was used legal and historical, as well as technical documentation indirect. As the research objectives was to seek to understand the virtual space as a territory for the commission of crimes, as well as the transnational character of cybercrime and problematic in its classification and enforcement of laws in time and space before the stir imposed by state sovereignty, and especially about the verification of the application of laws that criminalize offenses against the honor that are listed in the current Criminal Code in respect of the principle of legality, when they are practiced in the virtual environment.