Criminal and administrative liability in the new pesticides law: the reverse in the administrativization of criminal law

Abstract

This article analyzes the changes to criminal, civil and administrative liability promoted by the new Pesticides Law and the impact of the process of reversing the administrativeization of criminal law. The main objective is to verify the changed criminal liability standards and analyze the conducts that are no longer criminal offenses and have become the object of administrative and civil liability to verify the confirmation of the hypothesis initially outlined about the phenomenon of the reversal of the administrativeization of criminal law. The approach method used is qualitative analysis of the amended criminal liability standards and the use of dialectics to verify confirmation of the initial hypothesis. To obtain the result, bibliographical research carried out in books and academic journals and jurisprudential research carried out on the internet pages of the Court of Justice of Rio Grande do Sul and the Superior Court of Justice were relevant.