O Juizado Especial Criminal em Lauro De Freitas (BA) e o Tratamento da Microcriminalidade

Abstract

The provision of justice ensured by the Small Criminal Courts has its legal framework inspired by the idea of the victim's protagonism. Promoting reparation for the damage she suffered is the primary concern of this justice microsystem. In it there is no disapproval of the offender as the main idea of the system, something common in ordinary criminal justice.The purpose of this court is reached when compensatory measures are adjusted with the victims.Such measures are expected to placate their feelings of injustice and, obtaining the pacification between the victim and his offender, prevent the escalation of the microcriminal event to a criminal event of greater social harm. Understanding this dynamic within the context of the Small Criminal Courts of Lauro de Freitas, a city in the State of Bahia, was the purpose of this research. It has been studied how was the treatment given in this court to microcriminality verified in the period from 2015 to 2020. For this purpose, the process flow method, of the transversal design type, was used as a basis for collecting data from electronic process system that has been adopted in this court. It has been verificated the amount of legal demands that get in the small court and how were their exits in that lapse. Based on the collected data, the activity of the court was analyzed from the perspective of efficiency and effectiveness for the city’s people, according to the parameter adopted in the study. The research allowed to conclude that, in relation to this small court, the activity of criminal justice to the community of Lauro de Freitas, it was inefficient and ineffective or of low effectiveness, in the period of interest. Clearly, this outcome it is due to the fact that the bureaucrats of the criminal justice system in the State of Bahia do not give importance to the need to investigate microcriminality, under the terms prescribed by law, with the same commitment as devote themselves to macrocriminality.