Democracia, Acesso à Justiça e Defensoria Pública: uma comparação entre Mossoró/RN e Pelotas/RS

Abstract

In Brazil, from the 1988 Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil (CRFB/88), the strategies and institutions that could be used to invoke the courts in claiming rights by citizens were expanded, given the option of a model Legal assistance and promotion of access to justice. The present study analyzes the implementation of the public policy of access to justice of the state public defenders in the cities of Mossoró/RN and Pelotas/RS. In this perspective, the research question is as follows: What is the contribution of the state public defenders to access to justice in Mossoró/RN and Pelotas/RS? Did the defendant make a difference for the citizen? Our main hypothesis is that, despite being normatively essential for the constitution of citizenship, the contribution of the state public defender to access to justice in Mossoró/RN and Pelotas/RS is limited in several areas, due to the limited number of attendances in relation to the population quantitative In conditions of social and economic vulnerability, the precarious operational, institutional and human resources structure and the poor quality of care to those in need. The methodology mixes qualitative techniques, with content analysis, and quantitative, from the performance of a survey, consolidated in a comparative way between the two cities. Our objective is to analyze and compare the contribution of the state public defender in the promotion of access to justice and consolidation of democracy in Mossoró/RN and Pelotas/RS.