Toward a Better Justice System: Brazilian and Canadian best practices on Governance

Informações

Código: APS1655
Divisão: APS - Administração Pública e Gestão Social
Tema de Interesse: APS-A - Estado, Administração Pública e Sociedade Civil

Autores

Wagner Silva de Araujo

Resumo

National Justice Systems are hardly seen as a state-of-the-art one: complex access,belated trials and sentences, high costs and low efficiency seem almost a universal hindrance.Despite some differences between their Justice Systems, Canada and Brazil have been developingprograms in order to improve the governance of the National Justice System. This research had asits main goal to do a comparative study – based on a Canadian Department of Justice ConceptualFramework created to strengthen the ability to measure and evaluate the justice system – aboutbest practices in both countries toward a better Justice System. According to Canadian JusticeSystem key actors, Legal Aid, Mediation Programs, and the Program of Legal Education andInformation (PLEI) were selected as best practices. According to key actors in Brazil, the bestpractices are Special Courts and Communitarian Justice Program.

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