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Drug Courts are an alternative to the traditional criminal process, directed at individuals accused of crimes related to drug use. From the multiplicity of practices involving this mechanism, as well as from structural problems present in several experiments, the present research seeks to build an intertextual concept of what the doctrine and the potential participants understand by this tool. After an extensive bibliographic review, people who could be participants of the program if it was developed in Brazil were interviewed, from the key elements point of view proposed by NADCP. A semi-structured questionnaire was developed, which was applied to three convicted prisoners, three provisional prisoners and three adolescents in compliance with socio-educational measures. The data collection took place in the county of Frederico Westphalen. The analysis of the data was made from dialectical hermeneutics. The bibliographical research was carried out with books and periodicals written in the Portuguese, English and Spanish languages, available in libraries and online. It was found that the Drug Courts should offer a possibility of behavior change, through the participant's awareness that can/should occur throughout the treatment. There is no way to design a Drug Court program that only counts on law professionals who, in turn, relegate their responsibilities to mutual aid entities; The program will never lose its criminallegal nature. Ideally, the program should be offered as a conditional suspension of the process. Drugs that can make the person more aggressive and facilitate violent crimes should certainly be accepted; the program must be offered to addicted and drug abusers, and for the recreational user, it is understood that this decision will depend on each program according to their demands and capacities to provide treatment; The program should not restrict access to participants solely because of the offense for which it was charged; all programs must constitute their criteria from their own possibilities and resources. The Drug Courts are not punitive in nature, even when applied after conviction. The program has features of a defensive nature that does not enter into the debate on the relevance of decriminalization of drug use; CRAS and CREAS may be providers of treatment satisfactorily. It is still an open concept, it is a path that is more beneficial than the traditional procedure. It is concluded that the Drug Courts is a multidisciplinary and non-adversarial program, conducted by the Judiciary, which seeks to offer those accused of drug-related offenses an opportunity to change their behavior, which is able to provide a reduction of individual damages and, consequently, social damages, from a structured program of action that offers a plurality of tools to be used by the participants throughout their treatment. It is also concluded that despite the criticisms that can justifiably be directed to the Therapeutic Justice, it meets what they propose, in order to reduce the damage caused by the incidence of Criminal Law. |
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