THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF INSIGNIFICANCE IN BRAZILIAN CRIMINAL LAW

Abstract

This article examines the Principle of Insignificance and its in Brazilian Criminal Law, making the evolution, concept, applicability, requirements and, mainly, objective, carrying out a survey of some emblematic cases where it was historically used analyzing the surface Brazilian jurisprudence on this topic. Still, we seek to demonstrate the necessary requirements for the application of the principle of insignificance, also known as the trifle principle, presenting crimes incompatible with this principle. For that, the method of approach in bibliographic and documentary research was applied, having as reference a specialized doctrine and normative/specific institutes1988, being the CRFB a jurisprudence of the STF and STJ essential tools for this. With regard to the method of procedure, from the perspective of an analysis of the content of dialectical hermeneutics. Thus, it is designed to weigh according to Superior jurisprudence, for the purposes and the need for a greater right of this important principle by the operators of the.