The Federal Justice act in combating corruption in Southern Brazil

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.

摘要 本文针对第四联邦地区法院（Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region，TRF4）打击腐败犯罪的运行实践展开研究。研究针对2003年至2016年间TRF4刑事法庭作出的裁判文书采用词典法开展文本分析，旨在勾勒涉案罪名与被告人的特征画像。尽管网络问责机制发生变革，伴随重大联邦警务行动的涌现、科技手段的应用、新型法律规制的出台，以及各机构间高度集中的职权配置，但涉及中高层官僚的重大腐败犯罪，以及涉案金额更高、手法更为精密的腐败犯罪，占比仍然较低。涉及走私与小额腐败的犯罪案件，占据该国南部地区司法机关日常办案的绝大多数比重——至少在刑事中级法院层面是如此，此类法院负责审理来自专门刑事法庭与普通刑事法庭的上诉裁判。