CHANGE IN THE APPROACH TO THE CONSTITUTIONALIZATION OF CRIMINAL LAW AS PROTECTION OF THE LEGAL WELFARE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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Sergio Andrés Lopéz Zamora

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The traditional constitutional conception, within the framework of social and democratic systems of law, takes as a characteristic respect for human dignity as an anthropocentric axis. This particularity was based on the constitution of the European continental court, ending the twentieth century and beginning in the XXI, taking into account the constitutionalization of criminal law and the protection of legal rights that surround this fundamental right. The contrary can not be said, what is intended is to show the margin of the evolutionary development of the constitutionalization of criminal law, in the sense of the legal rights that must be protected in the 21st century, in the process and the guarantee of preservation human. Thus, it began to make a sketch about the need for the constitutionalization of criminal law and criminal procedure, to accommodate and an analysis of the legal rights that deserve greater attention in the XXI century, to end with a proposal to locate an extension of the crimes of humanity, towards a guardianship reinforced with the right of the environment and natural resources.

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Articulos 39