Justiça restaurativa no sistema tutelar educativo

: perspetivas de profissionais sobre as experiências das vítimas

Abstract

The traditional justice that manifests itself, mainly, through custodial measures, has been ineffectual in terms of reduction in relapse rate, and has had some losses, such as the high costs to the state. For this reason, the literature has shown advantages of an alternative justice model - restorative justice. This study is part of the project "Reparation to the victim in the European Juvenile Justice Systems: Comparative analysis and transfer of best practices" (REVIJ), which aims to create an alternative justice and / or complementary to the current justice, in order to try to bridge the limitations in solving crimes. This study explores the perceptions of victim support technicians and probation officers, as the meanings and experiences of victims, during their participation in restorative justice processes. To this end, there were transcribed and analyzed semi-structured interviews with eight professionals. The data suggest that restorative justice is still very embryonic process in Portugal, with scant experience of professionals, and insufficient training, human resources and materials for their implementation. Furthermore, the data shows that there is still a culture of justice centered on the offender and his punishment, which causes the victim is not induced to participate in the process of which it is part. For this reason, it is difficult to draw conclusions about the impact of this model on the victim.

Date of Award	12 Oct 2016
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Raquel Matos (Supervisor)