THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CRIMINAL LAW. A THEORETICAL APPROACH FROM THE MONEY LAUNDRY

This article aims to discuss the phenomenon of internationalization of criminal law, which have a legal and political character, and which, on the one hand, has continuously influenced national laws, and on the other hand, has been little debated by Brazilian criminal doctrine. In order to do so, the crime of money laundry, a kind of international transnational crime foreseen in the main International Conventions of transnational crimes was chosen as the paradigm to discuss and prove the problem proposed. In the end, it was tried to prove a need for international cooperation in criminal matters as a way to effectiveness the prevention by the implementation the international money laundering regimes, since, as shown, money laundering not subject to the jurisdiction of international criminal tribunals and depend of the indirect enforcement. The procedure of research adopted was the bibliographic research, and the method, deductive.