Crime of Homicide and Its Modalities

In Brazilian criminal law, the crime of homicide comes in three forms: simple, privileged and qualified. The circumstances that qualify and privilege it can be understood as subjective or objective in nature. Based on this division, scholars differ on the possibility of the simultaneous existence of privileges and qualifiers in the crime of homicide. This book analyzes the possibility of privileges coexisting with qualifiers in the crime of homicide and, if they do, whether privileged qualified homicide is a heinous crime.