690.2 Effectiveness and governance of Brazilian criminal justice system

Saturday, August 4, 2012: 10:54 AM
Faculty of Economics, TBA
Oral
Arthur TRINDADE , Sociologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
Despite the variety of sources and methodologies, the studies of Criminal Justice Systems have been focusing on their efficiency. They analyze the system's capacity to process the enormous demand for punishment. But little have been discussing on the effectiveness of punishment, it causes and effects. Also, there are little analysis about the system’s governance conditions. In this article, we discuss the effectiveness and the governance of the Brazilian Criminal Justice System.