“DPU para todos”: um estudo acerca do acesso à justiça a partir da itinerância nas cidades de abrangência da subseção Pelotas

Abstract

This research focuses on the project “DPU para Todos”, conducting a study on access to justice based on roaming in the districts covered by the Pelotas subsection, during the period between 2019 and 2021. This study´s main aim is to analyse and verify if this itinerancy project is capable of overcoming obstacles to access to justice met by assisted vulnerable groups, intending to contribute to a present, democratic, justice citizenship, using as a paradigm not only the classic Renovatory Waves of access to justice proposed by the Florence Project and the Global Access to Justice Project, but also the most current debates focused on the Brazilian context. Firstly, a theoretical outline about access to justice in Brazil and the reforms and mechanisms for strengthening it, such as the Florence project and the Renovatory Waves, will be carried out. After that, the new perspectives of access to justice and the itinerant justice as a way to overcome genuine obstacles were examined. Hereof, this study comes forward to answer the following problem: Can the itinerant justice, through the project "DPU para todos" be a means suited for overcoming obstacles to access to justice and achieving a present, democratic, justice citizenship in the localities of DPU Pelotas´s scope? Hence, the methodology used in this research was the hypothetical-deductive method, through bibliographical and documentary research. The instrument used for the composition of the data analysis´s corpus and the data´s production was the “Defensoria para Todos” decentralized Itinerants Activity Performed Reports, using a qualitative approach of the data´s analysis, established by content´s examination. The analysis´s categories extracted from the floating reading were: the municipalities favoured by the project, the vulnerable groups served by it, and the matter covered. It is possible to conclude that the project “DPU para Todos” displayed the need to travel to the community, conclusion based on the public's accordance and the comments extracted from the report, which showed that people stopped being served due to a limitation in the number of people assisted, as a result of the health recommendations concerning the pandemic´s combat. It is emphasised the necessity to democratize the access to justice to the vulnerable population, an access to genuine justice, endowed with citizenship and that is not limited to opening the doors of the judiciary, but that has an active listening, sensitive from the point of view of those who create laws but also of those who execute them. It is evident that the DPU is not the only way to democratize access to justice, but it is one of the ways, which is why it is able to break down obstacles to access to justice in the areas covered by the Pelotas subsection in Rio Grande do Sul, promoting democratic access to justice that guarantees citizenship.