Abstract
Abstract This article studies the operation of the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region (TRF4) in the fight against corruption crimes. Judgments produced by the TRF4 criminal courts between 2003 and 2016 underwent text analysis using the dictionary method, seeking to outline the profile of crimes and defendants. Despite the changes in the web accountability institutions, with the outbreak of major federal police operations, technological uses, new legal devices and a high degree of concentration between the agencies, there is a small proportion of grand corruption crime, involving middle and high-ranking bureaucrats and more sophisticated crimes with greater financial value. Crimes involving contraband and petty corruption take up much of the day to day of the judiciary in the south region of the country, at least in the criminal intermediate courts, where the judge appeals decisions coming from specialized and generalist criminal courts.
Highlights
The issue of fighting corruption has gained increasing visibility in Brazil
As for the last two phases of the cycle, there is more information available about the work of the Federal Police (PF) and the Ministério Público Federal (Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office at the federal level) (MPF) (Arantes, 2011a, 2011b; Arantes, Loureiro, Couto, & Teixeira, 2010), which are the trigger-institutions of the Federal Criminal Justice system
The study characterizes the day-to-day of the Federal Criminal Justice system regarding the work on this theme, through operating a series of filters that are usual in accountability institutions
Summary
The issue of fighting corruption has gained increasing visibility in Brazil. The literature has advanced regarding the study of networks of accountability institutions, presenting a significant analysis of the institutions that make up this network and its cycle of supervision, investigation, and sanction (Praça & Taylor, 2014). There are still few studies about the Federal Justice, its operation and daily activities This research investigates the Federal Criminal Justice system, the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region (TRF4), Southern Brazil, aiming to understand the processes surrounding the theme of fighting “corruption” in its various forms of criminal classification. What is the pattern and profile of federal anti-corruption actions judged in the TRF4, Southern This is descriptive research, the general hypothesis guiding this study is that the network of accountability institutions, publicizing activities related to grand corruption, mostly fight and manage to take to the Federal Justice petty corruption, which involves criminals and low-level public officials. The third section focuses on the Federal Justice, in particular on the federal prosecution of corruption crimes, linking the literature debates with the findings of the TRF4 decisions on criminal appeals.
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