A prova em vídeo no processo penal sob um enfoque de direitos humanos

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the video evidence in the Brazilian criminal process and tries to analyze it under a human rights approach. It starts from the idea that the ability to make videos spread throughout society and, therefore, has become a very useful and clearly way to try to prove facts. It argues, however, that the judiciary, traditionally linked to the written word, isn't prepared to deal with the video evidence and its rhetorical power. The human rights approach deals with the fear that a society covered by cameras could become a typical police state of dystopias as 1984.