INSTITUTION OF MITIGATION OF PUNISHMENT IN THE CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL
Keywords:
retroactive effect of criminal law, mitigating factors, aggravating factors, minor, attempted offence, criminal defenses, intoxication, criminal complicity, diminished sanity, plea bargain, pardon, amnesty, grace, probation, parole, legal personAbstract
This paper analyzes the institution of mitigation of punishment in the criminal legislation of the Federative Republic of Brazil, including retroactive effect of criminal law, sentencing for inchoated offences committed at the stage of attempt, sentencing taking into account mitigating and aggravating factors, the features of criminal liability of minors, liability for the offences committed in the state of intoxication, the procedure for more lenient sentencing, issues on determining of pardon, amnesty and grace, releasing from punishment for offences committed in complicity, probation, parole, some issues of criminal liability of legal persons for the offences against ecology, sentencing for offences committed in a state of insanity and diminished sanity, sentencing in case of conclusion for a plea agreement as well as the role of special laws. And the Code of Criminal Procedure Law of the state in mitigating criminal punishment, and as a final conclusion, provides proposals on the implementation of some of the criminal law norms of the Federative Republic of Brazil to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
