Abstract:This paper presents an investigation on the critical discourses thatattribute the authoritarianism of the Brazilian criminal procedure to a legacy ofthe fascist Italian criminal procedural legislation of 1930. At first, it reveals theimpossibility of this comparison by the lack of sources for verifying if there wasindeed the influence of Italian fascist law in the Brazilian Criminal Procedure Codeof 1941. Then, it is analyzed how this critical discourse diffuses among Braziliancriminal procedural law scholars … Show more
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