A importância da prova pericial e sua repercussão na investigação do crime de feminicídio

Abstract

In a current environment of public insecurity such as ours, violence against women for reasons of their gender has been showing alarming rates. The feeling of insecurity coupled with the sense of impunity challenges state authorities and creates disbelief in law enforcement institutions. The present scientific work aims to present the importance of the expert evidence and its repercussion in the investigation of the crime of feminicide. Because it is a crime that leaves traces, material evidence is of the utmost importance for the demarcation of the fact, especially in the specific case of femicide, since it is a crime in which the victim becomes a target because of its gender female. The criminal expert needs a sharper look for a correct accountability of the agent. The institute of proof, from its origins, always had as purpose to elucidate the facts and to clarify the truth. Therefore, it is a mechanism of extreme relevance in the criminal process, as it is a fundamental element for the free conviction of the magistrate and consequent formation of justice as a fundamental presupposition. The expert evidence, based on a scientific basis, provides the judge and jurors with greater security for deciding the fate of the individual who is being charged for an offense, since it allows a fair trial, constituting an important tool essential to the State Democratic Right.