Desocultando “o percurso” da informalização da justiça no sistema dos Juizados Especiais Federais: uma pesquisa exploratória nos juizados criminais da 4ª Região

Abstract

As an instance of Brazilian federal court, constitutionally associated with contemporary pretensions of access to justice and peaceful resolution of social conflicts, the Juizados Especiais Federais Criminais, set up in 2001 by Law No. 10,259, still remain in an empty to academic research. This scientific work, confronting such cognitive invisibility, approaches (in a critical way and with fusion of discipline and methodologies) the trajectory of creation and the operation thereof, taking in account the context of ambiguity and tension between discourses of democratization of jurisdiction and its neoliberal exploitation that surrounds them. It adopts as a working hypothesis that the peculiarities of Federal Court, especially in terms of ability and criminalities spanning in its penal dimension, had produced courts that are marginalized and fragile in their juridical and democratic potential to facing conflicts. Seeking empirical support in the reality of Federal Court of the 4th Region (RS, PR and SC), the investigation makes use of the case study as a methodological approach. Assuming a perspective of "Sociology of Administration of Justice", it seeks to demonstrate, therefore, that, in structural and functional terms, the system of judgeships at the federal sphere moves away from the constitutional criteria that guide it, thus obscuring its emancipatory and democratic potential, drowning itself in an "efficientist" logic.