Análise da efetividade das ações de combate aos crimes e infrações ambientais no Estado da Paraíba: um estudo de caso no município de João Pessoa.

Abstract

Environmental protection has been a topic much debated by nations over the last few years, since then, society has shown itself to be in favor of a paradigm shift about its performance in the natural environment and the need for intervention by public authorities with protective actions and policies. that minimize or prevent damage to the environment. Criminal Law as an instrument of environmental protection presents itself from a criminal policy as a guarantor of a right to an ecologically balanced environment, with the aim, above all, of prevention, observing the principle of minimum intervention, being resorted only when the measures in civil and administrative scopes are not sufficient. Law 9.605/98 brings a series of typifications of conduct and application of penalties for those who commit harmful acts both for individuals and legal entities. In this way, the present research aimed to analyze the effectiveness of actions to combat crimes and environmental infractions in the municipality of João Pessoa - PB, through the identification of crimes and environmental infractions, the bodies responsible for repression actions and analysis of the application of the law. Environmental Crimes Law, Federal Decree 6.514/2008 and the National Environmental Policy. The importance of the research lies in the possibility of replicating this work as a tool for identifying infractions and environmental crimes in other locations, with the aim of improving inspection and monitoring actions and in order to preserve the environment and apply the relevant standards. As for the methodology, a case study was used and, from the point of view of its objectives, it was an exploratory and descriptive research, with regard to technical procedures, primary and secondary data were used, the primary data were collected on the website of SUDEMA that are of public access, in turn, the secondary data were collected through a bibliographical research and, as for the approach of the problem, it was a qualitative study. In terms of the results, it was evident that the actions employed by the environmental protection agencies were effective in the municipality of João Pessoa - PB and that there is an applicability of the LCA, the Federal Decree 6.514/2008 and the PNMA, in addition, it was also found that the most frequent environmental administrative infraction in that municipality are those related to the environmental licensing process, evidencing a need to disseminate the PNMA instruments as a way to reduce the incidence of crimes and environmental infractions.