The crimes of sexual violation of minors: an analysis in light of the legal good theory in the 1886 penal code and the new angolan penal code.

Abstract

This paper aims to address the crimes of sexual assault against minors, where we seek to make an analysis in the light of the theory of legal good protected by the Angolan Penal Code of 1886 and the recently approved Penal Code. The work was carried out with the intention of answering, at the end, an important question about to what extent the new design of the types of crimes of sexual abuse of minors obeys the criteria of penal dignity and necessity of punishment? The study began with a brief incursion into the historical evolution of the crimes against honesty where the crimes of sexual violation (designated by the new Penal Code as sexual abuse) used to fit, we will analyze the different concepts of legal good, as well as differentiate the crimes against sexual self-determination foreseen in the new Penal Code, since these are for the first time expressly consecrated in section II and III referring to crimes against sexual freedom and self-determination.

The research presented relevant jurisprudential and doctrinal understandings on the subject, whose bibliographical references consulted were based on the works of authors who have written about the same, as well as domestic and international legislation regarding the protection of children against sexual abuse, which enabled us to give an answer to the question raised in the paper.