RT Article
T1 Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Restorative Justice in Brazil
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 64
IS 6/7
SP 654
OP 673
A1 Traguetto, Jessica
A1 Guimaraes, Tomas Aquino de
A2 Guimaraes, Tomas Aquino de
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1694957039
AB The Brazilian prison population in 2016 had increased by more than 700%, compared with the situation in the early 1990s, from 90 thousand to 726.7 thousand. The ordinary response to prison overcrowding came through changes to the justice system, such as Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Restorative Justice. Although these new processes are socially relevant, there are few studies about them anywhere, but especially in Brazil. This study seeks to discuss the perceptions of Brazilian judges upon these new ways of dispensing justice from the perspective of institutional change theory. The data collection involved document analysis, court-hearing observations, and interviews with 14 key-actors in the Brazilian justice system. The results show four dimensions—beliefs, motivations, commitment, and intergroup relations—that characterize the roles played by Brazilian judges working with Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Restorative Justice. This movement can be classified as the modal type of institutional change called layering and "radical" frame blending.
K1 Therapeutic jurisprudence
K1 Restorative justice
K1 Judges
K1 Institutional change
K1 Brazil
DO 10.1177/0306624X19877595