Open AccessJUDICIARY REFORM IN BRAZIL AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUSTICE: IMPROVING COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN OFFENDER TREATMENT
Author(s) -
Márcio Schiefler Fontes
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
panorama of brazilian law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2318-1516
DOI - 10.17768/pbl.v2i2.34384
Subject(s) - imprisonment , convict , prison , political science , economic justice , criminal justice , harm , prison reform , criminology , public administration , law , law reform , sociology
This paper intends to provide an overview of the Brazilian judicial system, its recent reform, and how the National Council of Justice (whose creation was the major goal of that reform) started to address the issues of improving the efficiency of criminal justice and increasing the use of alternatives to detention and imprisonment. The concept behind applying and enforcing convictions aims to remove the convict from society, to avoid further harm, allowing the prisoner to return to society after they have reabsorbed social values. The current challenge facing prison systems is to foster effective methods of rehabilitating and reintegrating these people into society, so that they are capable of living in society when they have finished their sentences. Community involvement in offender treatment is a current worldwide trend that has found the desirable echo in important initiatives championed by the National Council of Justice.