Racismo estrutural e justiça restaurativa: uma análise crítica das formações promovidas pelo Conselho Nacional de Justiça.

Abstract

Judicial restorative work is presented by the National Council of Justice as a set of methods, principles and techniques aimed at raising awareness of the factors that motivate conflict (CNJ, 2016a). Therefore, their formations need to have a critical look at the Brazilian socio-structural reality, that is, they need the “change of lenses” proposed by Zehr (2008). By understanding training as an important vehicle capable of producing a critical awareness in its participants, this research is guided by the following question: To what extent do training courses in Restorative Justice conducted by the National Council of Justice recognize and address structural problems - in particular racism - that pervade the Justice System and Brazilian society? To answer this question, a qualitative research was carried out with two stages in the methodological route. The first stage consisted of document analysis of the complete version of the Minimum Guiding Pedagogical Plan for Training in Restorative Justice, the documents of the 1st and 2nd Seminars on the National Policy on Restorative Justice, the Course Fundamentals for Implementing Restorative Justice in the Courts and the Course Essence of Restorative Justice, all available on the website of the National Council of Justice. And the second stage comprised conducting semi-structured interviews with professionals who facilitated these and other training promoted by the Council. It was observed that there is no mention of structural issues, nor of the racial debate, in the documents analyzed, however the interviews carried out presented a very interesting scenario that was analyzed in the present research.