Competência para o julgamento do crime de exploração do trabalho escravo

Abstract

It exposes the historical evolution of abusive exploitation of work force, since the early stages of society, until nowadays, when suppression of human freedom persists with the reduction to a condition analogous to slave typified in the Penal Code, article 149. It shows that the circumstances of societies and the socio cultural background changed, but slavery, despite its formal abolition, continued to occur in different human contexts. It exposes the Judiciary’s institutional role, and discusses the issue of penal jurisdiction and its respective competencies. It is made a scientific research about which court would be competent to judge the “reduction to a condition analogous to slavery” crime, Federal Justice, State courts or Labour Courts.