Psychometric properties of the Psychopathy Checklist : Youth version among portuguese juvenile delinquents

The main aim of the present study was to examine some psychometric properties of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) among Portuguese juvenile delinquents. With forensic sample of 192 incarcerated male participants, the Portuguese version of the PCL:YV demonstrated promising psychometric properties of the three-factor model of youth psychopathy, internal consistency, convergent validity, concurrent validity, and retrospective validity that generally justify its use among Portuguese youths. Statistically significant associations were found with age of criminal onset, frequency of crimes, number of victims, and use of physical violence.

Uma cultura de segurança comum na UE através de um programa de formação europeu para as polícias

This master dissertation is to bring a contribution to the reflection on the need to strengthen cross-border cooperation, among the various entities applying the law with a view to building a European security culture through police training. On this basis, it proposes a reflection on the new security paradigm, focused on the demanding and informed security needs by the citizen due to an increasingly transnational crime throughout the different States. This development, coupled with globalization itself, led to the definition of strategies to gear the work of the police in preventing and combating new criminal phenomena such as the European Internal Security Strategy. However, without a true safety culture, which fosters trust among the various actors and ensures a coordinated and uniform action of the police, it will not be easy to achieve the desired effectiveness in protecting the fundamental rights that underpin European integration. Against this background, attempts to explain that the implementation of a common European training program for the police (LETS) is the way forward, with a view to a more effective security in the Union, based on values that embody a genuine European security culture, coveted by all, based on an idea of governance held at different levels of intervention, European, regional and national levels.

A necessária implicação das fontes na produção da verdade jornalística e na concreta realização da Justiça

Na fundamentada opinião de Javier del Moral1, a fonte de informação é “uma pessoa, um grupo de pessoas, organizadas ou não, que foram testemunhas ou conhecem os factos que o jornalista vai converter em notícia, de maneira direta (informação verbal) ou mediante a entrega de documentos”. O autor refere ainda que estes dois tipos de fontes se complementam. Desta forma, são um elemento central no processo de investigação, quer ao nível do jornalismo, quer ao nível dos órgãos de polícia criminal. Ambas as instâncias, para desenvolverem um trabalho aprofundado, necessitam de ter por base diversas informações, sendo estas fornecidas pelas fontes. Quanto mais credíveis forem as fontes, mais credíveis são as informações. A presente dissertação pretende averiguar qual o papel desenvolvido pelas fontes na investigação judiciária e na investigação jornalística. Tentaremos, ao longo deste estudo, perceber que diferenças existem entre aquelas que são as fontes da comunicação e aquelas que são as fontes da Justiça. Existirão semelhanças entre ambas? Podem os dois sistemas funcionar como fonte um do outro? É a estas perguntas que procurámos dar resposta. Queremos ainda identificar os cuidados necessários no relacionamento com as fontes de informação. E entender como é que estas podem contribuir para a produção da verdade jornalística e para a concreta realização da Justiça. Não deixaremos de parte um olhar abrangente sobre o relacionamento entre o sistema da Justiça e os Media. Uma relação que ao longo dos anos se tem revelado conflituosa, distante de uma comunicação possível, mas estritamente necessária ao funcionamento de uma sociedade democrática. Para que esta dissertação estivesse à luz daquilo que acontece atualmente nas redações e nos tribunais, entrevistámos agentes da Justiça e dos Media, que nos apresentam a sua visão sobre as fontes, sobre o segredo de justiça e sobre o jornalismo judiciário. Por fim e a título de ilustração, elaborámos um estudo de caso sobre a Tragédia do Meco, onde analisaremos dois dos principais jornais diários portugueses: o Correio da Manhã e o Público. O objetivo é verificar o tratamento jornalístico-­‐judiciário que foi feito durante a primeira semana do acontecimento.

A caracterização do trabalho análogo ao escravo na jurisprudência dos tribunais brasileiros

Based on bibliographical research and the analysis of court rulings, this study investigates the characterization of slave-like labor by Brazilian courts. After the alteration of article 149 of the Brazilian Penal Code, introduced by Law nº 10.803/2003, which typifies the practice of contemporary slavery in Brazil, divergent characterizations of this practice remain. The courts currently employ the broadest concept of contemporary slave labor, in which the crime is characterized by the engagement in one of the following conducts established as a criminal offense: labor with the restriction of freedom, submission to exhaustive working conditions, degrading working conditions, and debt bondage. The engagement in one of the above is therefore enough to constitute a crime. Contemporary slave labor in Brazil is not characterized only by the restriction of the worker’s freedom, as in the case of forced labor or debt bondage, but also through the submission of the workers to situations that offend their human dignity. Individual freedom and the dignity of the human person, fundamental tenets of the Brazilian Federal Constitution, are juridical resources safeguarded by law. Contemporary slavery is not limited to the mere infringement of labor laws, but represents a severe violation of the human rights of the workers involved.

A geografia da criminalidade

A criminalidade é algo que afeta as nossas vidas, bem como a forma de viver em sociedade. O conhecimento da realidade sócio-criminal é de extrema importância para o desenvolvimento das sociedades. As temáticas da criminalidade e segurança têm vindo, nos últimos tempos, a ser alvo de enorme pressão pela comunicação social, pelo governo e pela comunidade civil. Desta forma, urge a necessidade de encontrar novas leituras de informação, a nível regional e local, sobre áreas de ocorrências ou incidentes associados à criminalidade e incivilidade - as áreas de intervenção das forças de segurança - de forma a melhor se compreender as suas causas. Só assim se poderá agir, numa ótica da prevenção e combate ao fenómeno. A diversidade espacial do nosso território é conhecida e estudada desde há muito, contudo, raramente se pensa e articula este conhecimento com os fenómenos criminais. A criminalidade está diretamente articulada com a geografia e com os fenómenos que ocorrem num determinado território. Segundo as teorias da criminologia, tratar apenas dados reportados é insuficiente para efetuar uma análise correta da criminalidade e criar políticas de segurança e prevenção do fenómeno criminal. Com o desenvolvimento de aplicações de Sistemas de Informação Geográfica (SIG) desde 1990, os analistas criminais em todo o mundo têm usado e ponderado os princípios da Geografia de forma a perceber e criar mecanismos de prevenção e segurança da população. Vários especialistas afirmam que o mapeamento da criminalidade tem um impacto no entendimento do crime e dos problemas sociais. Desta forma, a geografia aplicada tem um papel preponderante neste tipo de fenómeno, no sentido em que se conhecermos uma determinada área e a forma como essa afeta as áreas de proximidade, podemos perceber como e onde se localiza determinado fenómeno ou acontecimento. Isto é a Geografia da criminalidade, uma importante ferramenta de apoio à decisão em questões de segurança pública e prevenção do crime. Esta apresentação tem assim como objetivos principais: (i) perceber a dimensão e espacialização das forças de segurança, (ii) reconhecer áreas problemáticas e vulneráveis da cidade de Lisboa, (iii) propor soluções de segurança e prevenção da criminalidade com o reforço de unidades e instalações policiais.

O Ne bis in idem no Espaço de Liberdade, Segurança e Justiça e no Direito Europeu da Concorrência

Ne bis in idem, understood as a procedural guarantee in the EU assumes different features in the AFSJ and in european competition law. Despite having a common origin (being, in both sectors the result of the case law of the same jurisdictional organ) its components are quite distintic in each area of the integration. In the AFSJ, the content of bis and idem are broader and addressed at a larger protection of individuals. Its axiological ground is based on the freedom of movements and human dignity, whereas in european competition law its closely linked to defence rights of legal persons and the concept of criminal punishment of anticompetitive sanctions as interpreted by the ECHR´s jurisprudence. In european competition law, ne bis in idem is limited by the systemic framework of competition law and the need to ensure parallel application of both european and national laws. Nonetheless, the absence of a compulsory mechanism to allocate jurisdiction in the EU (both in the AFSJ and in the field of anti-trust law) demands a common axiological framework. In this context, ne bis in idem must be understood as a defence right based on equity and proportionality. As far as its international dimension is concerned, ne bis in idem also lacks an erga omnes effect and it is not considered to be a rule of ius cogens. Consequently, the model which the ECJ has built regarding the application of the ne bis in idem in transnational and supranational contexts should be replicated by other courts through cross fertilization, in order to internationalize that procedural guarantee and broaden its scope of application.

Da intercepção de comunicações, acções encobertas e serviços de informações

The Portuguese Intelligence Services have their operational skills limited due to the grievances caused by the Dictatorship and, in particular, by its political police. With the help of historical elements, and by analyzing current legislation, we demonstrate that such grievances are today unjustified and misplaced, mainly taking into account the Risk Society’s multifaceted threats. Also part of our analysis is the impugnment of the Constitutional Court’s decision nº 413/2015, which pronounced unconstitutional the norm contained in Decree nº 426/XII, of the Republic’s Assembly, article nº 78, nº2, which intended to allow Intelligence Services access to the so-called “metadata”, as well as to tax and banking information. It is our understanding, and we demonstrate it in our dissertation, that should be allowed the access of, not only the above mentioned information, but also the means known as communications interception and undercover operations to the Intelligence Services, as long as properly supervised and inspected.

O processo sumário e a reforma do Código do Processo Penal de 2013

The present work aims to develop the theme "The summary procedure and the reform of 2013". The purpose of its analysis serves the interest to understand the virtues and disadvantages of the changes introduced by Act n.º 20/2013 to our Code of Criminal Procedure, and the main focus of the present reflection is to further the impact of the measures taken by the legislator to the summary proceedings. The opening of the most serious crimes to summary procedure is a reform measure duly highlighted because it is a true innovation in the Portuguese penal system. Therefore, it urges to analyse not only the consequences of this measure, as well as if the objectives of its introduction in the summary procedure system are met. It should be noted that the legislator intends to promote speedy trial, and at the same time, ensure compliance with the Constitutional rights associated to the accused. At this point it is important to realize if there is a restriction of the accused essential guarantees. On the other hand, it should be noted that the typical characteristics of summary proceedings might have been invariably modified, due to the innovative aspect of the reform. That said, the changes might have fostered a mischaracterization of the typical format of the summary procedure, both in terms of the nature of the proceedings and in terms of its space and objectives within the penal system. Reflecting on the above will provide a deeper understanding of the volatile balance between the Portuguese governing prosecution efficiency and the Constitution, as well as the future of the criminal policy in Portugal.

A presunção de inocência nas fases preliminares do processo penal

This study analyses the principle of presumption of innocence in the preliminary stages of the Portuguese criminal process, its procedural aspect related with the principle of in dubio pro reo and its material aspect concerning the treatment of the defendant during the proceedings. The consequences and manifestations of the principle of presumption of innocence are analysed in the decisions of the closing stages of the preliminary criminal procedure and the application of the principle of in dubio pro reo is analysed in the judgement of sufficiency of evidence for the procedure to continue. It addresses the question of circumstantial evidence, its particular relevance in economic and financial crime, highly organized crime, the grounds for the indictment in general and when the sufficiency of evidence criteria is based on that evidence. It analyses the scope of the principle of presumption of innocence in the application of coercive measures, with reference to the arrest, first interrogation of the accused under detention and reasons for the subsequent dispatch about the measures. The asset assurance measures of preventive seizure and the preventive seizure to ensure confiscation are analysed and principle of presumption of innocence is considered non applicable to those measures.

Relatório de estágio no departamento central de investigação e acção penal

The means of obtaining evidence, the amount of evidence obtained, the number of defendants related to each criminal case and the gravity of the crimes for which the magistrates of the Department are holders of penal action, define its real importance to the Rule of Law. I have deeply studied the subject of the institution of hierarchical intervention required by the assistant and the application of an opening statement by the defendant, starting from a hypothetical case, provided when the query of an investigation with the subject of the crime of active corruption, where this institution was called as a reaction to the archiving dispatch delivered by the Public Ministry. I have study about the implementation of the institution of provisional suspension of the process, specifically in the scope of fiscal criminality, analyzing the effective satisfaction of the purposes of the sentences in two slopes: general prevention and special prevention. I went for my first time to a Central Court of Criminal Instruction, where I attended the measures of inquiry and instructive debate of a process that culminated with the prosecution and pronunciation of the defendants. In addition to this criminal experience, I have deepened and consolidated the academic knowledge with the study of various criminal cases from various fields in the scope of criminality investigated by the Department. I could therefore check the basis of procedural delays, regarding to our legal system, especially in this type of crime, raising issues that I analyzed and discussed, always in a critical and academic way. I had the opportunity to attend and witness a seminar in the Lisbon Directorate of Finance as well of entering the Centre for Judicial Studies to attend a conference on the International Anti-Corruption Day. Focus on the investigatory importance of the international judicial cooperation, through the various organs, with special interest to EUROJUST. I comprehended the organization and functioning of these communitarian organs and means of communication of procedural acts, in particular, the rogatory letters and european arrest warrants. This involvement is motivated by the moratorium factor of the investigations where rogatory letters are necessary for the acquisition of evidence or information relevant to the good continuation of the process. For this reason the judicial cooperation through the relevant communitarian organs, translates a streamlined response between the competent judicial authorities of the Member States, through the National Member that integrates EUROJUST. This report aims to highlight some of the difficulties and procedural issues that Public Prosecutors of DCIAP and criminal police bodies that assist them, face in combating violent and organized crime, of national and transnational nature, of particular complexity, according to the specifics of criminal types.

As apostas desportivas online associadas à combinação de resultados

The present dissertation is aimed at finding out whether the existing criminal protection of the sports ethics value is sufficient, regarding the dangers arising from the global online sports betting market and its characteristics. In the first chapter, the main issue will be introduced: the association between online sports bets and competition manipulations from a criminal point of view. In the second chapter, online sports bets will be defined, the characteristics of the referred global market explained and the danger said features bear to the manipulation of sports competitions exposed – also analysing the participants in this phenomenon. In chapter 3, it will be shown that the protection of sports ethics is a matter of public interest and that this interest is carried out by the sports federations as well. In the fourth chapter, the focus will be the criminal protection of sports ethics: its necessity based on the penal dignity of this system of sport associated values; the need to re-evaluate the existing protection due to the recognition of the existence of the online sports betting market; the existing criminal norms regarding the manipulation of sports competitions. Finally, in chapter 5, the intent will be to propose solutions to the identified problems concerning the sufficiency of the existing criminal legislation.