The Seventh Panel of the Public Security and Human Rights course: A Restorative Look, which took place last Tuesday (4th), approached themes related to the prison and social-educational system in the methodological context of Restorative Justice.
Opening the lecture cycle, the judge Frederico Paiva Bandeira de Souza, Table Coordinator of the Panel highlighted the implementation of Restorative Justice under the prism of empathy. "I see this course with a lot of enthusiasm. It is a possibility for us to change our lenses, to look at our neighbor, at crime, at justice with a new approach, so that we can understand situations in order to understand what is happening to the other, what is happening to the offended and thus have a more humanized approach", he stated.
In the first lecture, the public prosecutor Sidney Fiori Júnior presented examples of the application of Restorative Justice in the socio-educational system observing the individuality of each one, allied to the payment of the penalty and reintegration into society. "People are not guinea pigs, they are not objects. People are products of their stories and have life contexts. People have limits and potentialities," he emphasized.
The second guest of the afternoon, the doctor professor Tarsis Barreto Oliveira talked about the applications of Restorative Justice. "It is about an initiative by the enforcer of the law, it is about visualizing a wider space of application and incidence of the legal norm, it is about recognizing that the legal system itself grants, if it does not establish the possibility, a much more specific discipline related to the theme, but does not prevent its application. The concept is much broader", he recalled.
The third speaker presented positive cases, implemented in the state of Bahia, of police actions, as well as the quality of care. "Traditionally, there is a lot of resistance in relation to means that are not customary, and are not that reason that we call dominant, repression in relation to criminal justice, so we think a lot about the repressive mentality, as it is traditionally done in the criminal field. And working with this, working to undo this concept and promote awareness and subsequent training was a challenge that brought us a lot of satisfaction," he argued.
Composed of eight panels, the course will take place through the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) of the Superior School of the Judges of the State of Tocantins (ESMAT), with activities that promote interactivity among the students, throughout the course, by means of chat, as well as access to the lectures and other tools that will help in the teaching-learning process.
