Risk society, criminal law and criminal policyinal

Abstract

The following scientific article regards to the “new criminal law” into a globalized and contemporary society, characterized as a “risky society”, that demands its intervention in fields never wondered before by classical criminal law, which are objective and subjectivelly increased and potentialized by many sources, mainly technological progress, knowledge development and the “powerfull’s strength” in a world dominated by market rules and economic eficiency. Therefore, the article faces this modern criminal law and its simultaneous mission, as time as protects traditional legal wills, to defend those new wills raised upon a post-industry society, also in a criminal policy perspective.