In allusion to the Recommendation number 98 of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), of 2021, to the courts and judicial authorities, the Superior School of the Judges of the State of Tocantins (ESMAT) in partnership with the General Internal Affairs of Justice (CGJUS) and the Judiciary of the State of Tocantins promoted, on the morning of this Friday (16th), a Round of Conversation on Concentrated Hearings.
The actions aimed at the re-evaluating of the legal and psychosocial situation of the adolescents serving social and educational measures, considering the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (ECA) and SINASE, are called Concentrated Infractional Hearings. These hearings count on the participation of all actors in the protection network, so that the best interests of the adolescent are observed.
During the opening of the event, Judge Rosa Maria Gazire Rossi, assistant Judge of the General Internal Affairs of Justice, shared her emotion for the round of conversation and highlighted the importance of the adoption of guidelines and procedures for the holding of the concentrated infraction hearings, “this is an event that has been long awaited by all of us, the result of a fruitful work coordinated by the General Internal Affairs of Justice and which has culminated at this moment,” she said.
The magistrate added, in her speech, a brief contextualization about the Recommendation number 98 of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), of 2021, and she explained the details and unfolding of the Provision number 5, of 2022, “after preliminary studies, research, many discussions and deliberations, we came to the edition of the Provision number 5, of 2022, signed in the presence of Dr. Regina Trindade, State coordinator of the Making Justice/CNJ Program in the State of Tocantins. It was a moment of a great joy that marked this public policy in our State, which considered the absolute priority that must be ensured to the rights of children and adolescent, under the terms of the Constitution and the Child and Adolescent Statute”, she explained.
Judge Adriano Gomes de Melo Oliveira, State coordinator for Childhood and Youth at the Court of Justice of the State of Tocantins, emphasized the work already done with the multidisciplinary teams on behalf of children and adolescents as people in law.
“The concentrated hearing is not news to us, before the Resolution of the National Council of Justice, not with all the characteristics, but very close, procedures were already carried out in which we sought the participation of the protection and family network in hearings for the analysis of procedural benefits for the adolescents interned in juvenile detention centers. We have here a great support from the management group of the disciplinary teams, which is our GGEM, a service that counts on many psychologists and social workers. In any process that is necessary, in any district, in any city, in any judicial district in the family area, in the domestic violence area, in the childhood and youth area, we have this support. This expert multidisciplinary team is very important to hold the concentrated infraction hearings”, he said.
Also during the opening, the representative of the Department of Monitoring and Supervision of the Prison System and the System for Implementation of Socio-Educational Measures, of the National Council of Justice, Mayara Silva de Souza, highlighted the relevance and essentiality of the theme. In the occasion, she presented to the audience important points about the Making Justice Program.
“The Making Justice Program is an initiative of the National Council of Justice in partnership with the United Nations Development Program that aims to offer structural and sustainable answers for the qualification of the assistance in the penal system and in the socio-educational system”, he pointed out.
Round of Conversation
Divided into four panels, the Round of Conversation was attended by the following panelists: Judge Adriano Gomes de Melo, the magistrates Hélvia Túlia Sandes Pedreira and Frederico Paiva Bandeira de Souza and the representative of the National Council of Justice, Mayara Silva de Souza.
In her participation during the debate, magistrate Hélvia Túlia told us a little about her experience in the processes of concentrated hearings and thanked the Making Justice Program for the elaboration on the Manual on Concentrated Infractional Hearings, which contributed to the improvement of the technique of the mentioned hearings.
Finally, Judge Frederico Paiva classified Childhood and Youth as one of the most important and delicate areas of the Judiciary, “I usually say that working in Childhood and Youth is a great challenge, because, as we say here in Tocantins, there are many loose ends. We have to organize, try to appease and articulate”, he said.
The purpose of the round of conversation was to discuss the importance of holding the Concentrated Hearing by videoconference in cases where the family of the adolescent lives in a different district from the one where the measure is executed, and for various reasons the family members cannot travel to the district where the hearing is held.
Learn more about the Making Justice Program
The Making Justice Program works to overcome structural challenges of the criminal justice system based on the recognition of the unconstitutional state of things in Brazilian prisons by the Supreme Court. This is the continuity of a partnership started in 2019 between the National Council of Justice and the United Nations Development Program, with an important support from the Ministry of Justice and Public Security and other collaborations involving the public sector, the private sector and civil society.
The Program includes a national plan with 28 actions for the different phases of the criminal and socio-educational cycle, adapted to the reality of each unit of the federation with the protagonism of local actors. The actions bring together the best practices from different administrations of the National Council of Justice and are divided into technical support, donation of inputs and institutional articulation.
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