Offensiveness in Criminal Law: a review of the legal good concept based in the Recognition Theory

Authors

  • Giovani Agostini Saavedra PUCRS
  • Vinicius Gomes de Vasconcellos PUCRS

Keywords:

Criminal Law, Legal good, Recognition Theory.

Abstract

This article aims to establish an approximation between Honneth’s Recognition Theory and the criminal legal good theory. It is believed that it might contribute to better clarify this concept and its critiques. Therefore, this paper intend to outline the potential fundaments produced by the Recognition Theory in terms of a Criminal Law pointed to protect legal goods, in the context of a democratic state of law concerned about the understanding of the social conflict moral logic.

Author Biographies

Giovani Agostini Saavedra, PUCRS

Giovani Agostini Saavedra é Doutor em Direito e em Filosofia pela Johann Wolfgang Goethe – Universität Frankfurt am Main (Alemanha), mestre em direito e graduado em Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais pela PUCRS. É professor de Direito Penal, Criminologia e de Direito Processual Penal na Faculdade de Direito PUCRS, professor e coordenador das Especializações em Ciências Penais, Direito Ambiental e Direito, Mercado e Economia da PUCRS, professor do quadro permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Criminais da PUCRS (Mestrado e Doutorado), professor convidado em diversos cursos de pós-graduação lato sensu, pesquisador do Institut für Sozialforschung(Alemanha, Frankfurt am Main) no período de 2005 a 2008, Secretário-Geral do Instituto Transdisciplinar de Estudos Criminais (ITEC), Coordenador do Núcleo de Pesquisa em Ciências Criminais (PUCRS) e Coordenador da Comissão Científica da Faculdade de Direito da PUCRS.

Vinicius Gomes de Vasconcellos, PUCRS

Graduando em Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais pela PUCRS, bolsista de iniciação científica PIBIC/CNPq desde 2009, integrante do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Criminologia da PUCRS (espacocriminologico.blogspot.com).

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Vol. 38 No. 1 (2012)

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