%0 Journal Article
%T Criminal Responsibility of Municipal Mayors: Aspects of Formal Social Control in the Brazil
%A Cl¨¢udio Alberto Gabriel Guimar£¿es
%A M¨¢rcio Aleandro Correia Teixeira
%A Sandro Rog¨¦rio Jansen Castro
%J Beijing Law Review
%P 2255-2277
%@ 2159-4635
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/blr.2023.144125
%X The initial objective of this work is to elaborate a quantitative survey of police inquiries initiated by crimes committed by Municipal Mayors, with a specific spatial and temporal cut, which are defined in Decree-Law n° 201/67, to explain them from the perspective of Theory the Differential Association, inserting them in the concept of white collar crime and, in this perspective, recognizing them as a criminological phenomenon; as main objective, based on legal-scientific, quantitative and qualitative research, of documentary and bibliographic nature, developed from the socio-legal-critical method, the data concretely raised in the police inquiries will be analyzed, investigating a possible correlation between these crimes and the Index of Human Development¡ªHDI of the studied region and the probable consequences resulting from it. The white-collar crime defined by Sutherland to explain the social process learning to criminal practice, explains that the criminal behavior is the result of the individual¡¯s learning through differential assimilation, therefore, from the biological predisposition.
%K Crimes of Responsibility
%K Differential Association Theory
%K Federal Police
%K Decree-Law No. 201/67
%K Human Development Index¡ªHDI
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=130134