May 2018. In this month and year, on the 13th, 130 years of abolition in Brazil were celebrated. Even after so many years, studies and research of various shades point in the direction that the practice of contemporary slavery is still widespread and its numbers overwhelming. Victims -workers, relegated to the constitutional prescription that work is a condition of human sociability, are condemned to sell, in a precarious way, their workforce in order to survive. In addition, another fact

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... the legal world: the absence of condemnations from those who criminally exploit workers in these conditions. Based on research carried out in an observatory of Brazilian justice, the following question arises: What are the reasons for the absence of convictions for the crime of reducing the condition analogous to slavery? Are these reasons just legal? Is there really (IN) exploitation of labor under analogous slave conditions in Brazil? To this end, 8 STF decisions were analyzed, in the span of 6 years, from 2010 to 2016. The data were analyzed in two lines of approach: a) critical / dogmatic and b) metadogmatic. In the light of the critical / prospective approach to; in the light