Environmental Criminal Law, Restorative Justice, and the Urgency of Alternatives to Punitive Power

Matheus Borges Kauss Vellasco¹ Environmental protection is a matter of global urgency. In Brazil, the 1988 Federal Constitution elevated the right to an ecologically balanced environment to the status of a diffuse right, unequivocally establishing a mandate for preservation. At the infra-constitutional level, the 1998 Environmental Crimes Law emerged as one of the main instruments […]