Justiça restaurativa: reflexões sobre intervenções alternativas com adolescentes envolvidos em conflitos

Abstract

Restorative Justice (RJ) is an innovative form of justice that offers a counterpoint to traditional justice by enabling, through its practices, a space of dialogue and resignification for people who have been involved in a conflict situation. The present study search for investigate RJ in Brazil, used in the work with adolescents involved in conflicts. We aim therefore, to understand from recently published articles (in the period from 2010 to 2015) how RJ has fulfilled or not the objectives to which it is proposed. First, a bibliographic research was made through the Bvsalud and Scielo databases; this stage gave us access to four publications – two articles and two master's dissertations. The research was based on the qualitative approaching, using specifically the analysis of content to analyze the texts. Through this analysis, the following categories were constructed: 1) Design of RJ; 2) Basic precepts of RJ; 3) Restorative practices; 4) Results of Restorative Practices; 5) Contributions of Psychology to RJ. From this, it was verified that the initiatives of RJ described in the selected works fulfill the objectives that are proposed. However, it can be seen that RJ, while a relatively recent practice in Brazil has limitations and faces difficulties to be effectively implemented. The potentiality of RJ was observed to provide significant changes in interpersonal relationships and in the social scene as a whole. Therefore, it is suggested that further investigations be carried out on restorative practices, in order to explain more about the subject.