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This study tests the hypothesis that there is a clear difference between the average salaries perceived by male judges and female judges in eight Brazilian courts of justice. Using propensity score matching, judges were paired according to position, length of service as a judge, and court. The differences in average salaries persist even after the matching, although to a lesser degree, which can be explained by gender mediators that operate by generating better opportunities for men than for women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper assesses the perceptions of a group of employees from the federal judiciaries of Brazil and Argentina regarding the impact of electronic lawsuits on individual performance and public service quality. A model is proposed and tested with data collected from 14 interviews with public managers and employees. The results of this study suggest that court administrators should align task characteristics and individual characteristics to achieve better task-technology fit, individual performance and public service quality. These findings present important implications to understand the processes of the implementation of electronic lawsuits within courts and may provide guidance for future research about the judiciary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: TTo identify and analyze differences in the tasks, knowledge, and social features of the work of civil servants of the Superior Court of Justice, and, secondarily, to verify the factorial, convergent, predictive, and discriminative validity of the Work Design Questionnaire (WDQ) in the Brazilian Judiciary context. Originality/value: With the WDQ's development, the work design became the subject of further studies all around the world. Also, in Brazil, since its translation and adaptation, this variable has caused great repercussions in people management, becoming the first study within the scope of the Brazilian Judiciary. Design/methodology/approach: Through a survey sent to 2,898 civil servants, 895 responses were obtained and subjected to descriptive statistical analysis, confirmatory factorial analysis, reliability analysis, Kendall's tau correlation analysis, and the Kruskal-Wallis test. Findings: The most indicated work feature was social support, and the least indicated was interaction outside the organization. Special knowledge was most required from professionals with higher education. For the men, there were more problem solving, specialized knowledge, and decision-making autonomy in their work. Civil servants who work in judicial activities claimed to have more meaningful tasks. Managers claimed to have less autonomy in planning their tasks, as all other civil servants steted that their work has a more definite beginning, middle, and end. In a public body of great size and complexity, work features are differentiated by their sociodemographic and functional variables, requiring customization in the management practices of people and organizational policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the discussions on the racial issue in Brazil, one can observe as an emerging theme the representative discrepancy regarding spaces and positions of power occupied by black people, mainly women. In this sense, this article aims to understand the trajectory of black women in the Brazilian judiciary, with regard to the experiences of racism, achievements and obstacles faced. For that, a qualitative research was carried out, in which data collection occurred through semi-structured interviews. The reports presented about the academic phase and the exercise of the profession in the judiciary show how the feeling of not belonging to a certain space is part of these women's lives. The experiences lived within the judiciary point out situations of racism experienced by the interviewees, often in a veiled way, sometimes more ostensibly. The research findings contribute to the thinking of the need for a structural change in the judiciary with regard to racial issues, not only through racial quota policy, but, above all, with the creation of spaces for discussion and debates on racism institutional role in the judiciary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Annotation. The objective of this article is to critically review the main theoretical references in the area of domestic violence, especially violence against women and violence in intimacy. We seek to analyze how the concepts of this type of violence are portrayed and used in the gender studies of the last decades. It is also intended to raise awareness of the realities of domestic violence in Brazil and Portugal. Based on the statistical analysis of the two countries, it can be seen that domestic violence in Portugal is broader, not only for women. It is also interesting to mention that, if after the edition of the Maria da Penha Law, great emphasis was placed on the creation and implementation of Specialized Police Stations for women victims of domestic violence, the same attention was not given to the Military Police, which is the victim's first contact with the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To identify the factors that lead to the legalization and jurisdiction of health care by patients and health customers of the Unified Health System of Brazil, SUS.Subjects and methods: The legalization of health care is effective when the citizen searches for health care in health institutions without success. Thus, his or her last alternative is to seek legal resources. This is a systematic review of the PubMed database carried out in February, March and April 2017 using the integrated method and three searches. The eligibility criteria for the studies were being published in English, Portuguese or Spanish, working with humans and articles being available in the full version. Dissertations, letters to the author, editorials, current themes and free themes were excluded.Results: A total of 3338, 6 and 16 studies were found, respectively, in the first, second and third search. After refinement, there were 29 articles published between 2009 and 2016, of which 11 met the established criteria. The findings demonstrate that the population seeks the intervention of a legal system for access to medicine, treatment and therapy, medium and high complexity procedures and to obtain food formulas, supplies and medical hospital products.Conclusion: The factors that contributed to legalization were predominantly related to medications and being in agreement with the other studies in the literature, with emphasis on requests for vacancies in the unit/intensive care center with new determining factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Court caseload management is of key importance for guaranteeing the adjudication of cases and depends on how judges and administrative assistants deal with their workload. Results from several studies indicate that an increase in court caseload tends to generate an increase in the judge's production. However, some authors argue that this relationship is far more complex. To develop a fuller understanding of this relationship we tested an array of direct and moderating hypotheses. We used secondary data from 566 judges working in first trial courts in the State Justice System of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The results indicate a direct and positive relationship between court caseload and judge production, but the strength of this relationship depends on court specialty. The findings also indicate that the number of administrative assistants, judge experience and the number of places a judge works all moderate the caseload-production relationship. The results contribute to the development of strategies to address the delays and congestion of courts, two of the main Brazilian Judiciary problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze the reform of the Judiciary, considering aspects of its organizational culture on the basis of the perceptions of the civil servants in the Bahia State Courts of Justice. We begin by looking at the reform of the Brazilian State and of the Judiciary. We then look at aspects of Brazilian culture and their relationship with organizational culture. Using content analysis, we follow this by reviewing the data obtained through interviews with 37 civil servants. The paper ends with reflections regarding compatibilities and incompatibilities between the reform model adopted by the Judiciary and its organizational culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social rights have a collective dimension that arises especially when they become object of public policies, so their efficacy depends on the enlargement of deliberative spaces within the civil society. Although the legitimacy of the adjucation process depends on the juridical order providing spaces to guarantee that divergent interests will be represented, this is still difficult in the judiciary. Public hearings and amicus curiae can bring together "new actors", such as NGO's and social movements to the judicial field, so they could become more able to resist to the domination process denounced by Bourdieu, leading to democratization of the judiciary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the fundamental right to reasonable processing time and the challenges that this right imposes on the Brazilian Judiciary in a context of increasing litigation. Next, it analyzes how the issue has been dealt with by the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, in order to contribute to the debate about the (necessary) construction of an efficient model of conflict's resolution, presenting, therefore, mediation institute as a condition of possibility. It is analyzed, then, the implementation of the mediation and conciliation institutes in foreign law, and the introduction of its regulation in national law, through the new Civil Procedure Code and the Law Mediation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To describe the profile of insured individuals that filed claims for sickness benefits and compare the results of the administrative and legal investigations. Method: This case series included 114 insured persons that filed lawsuits against the Brazilian National Institute of Social Security (Instituto Nacional de Seguridade Social, INSS). They underwent psychiatric examinations required by the Brazilian Federal Social Security Special Court in Florianópolis from August to December 2010. Results: Mean age was 47 years, and participant age ranged from 24 to 64 years. Most insured individuals were women (79%), and most were employed (67.5%) and self-employed (26.5%) workers. Mean contribution time was 99.9 months, ranging from 8 to 352 months. Mean benefit duration was 20.4 months, ranging from 2 to 97 months. The most prevalent category of workers was service workers, store and supermarket salespeople (54.4%), followed by administrative workers (19.3%). Conclusions: Only 17 participants were found to be unable to work after benefit cessation, a 14.9% mismatch between administrative and legal investigations. The most frequent diagnoses were mood disorders (59.6%) and anxiety disorders (17.5%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article falls within the field dedicated to critical analysis of what is usually called the judicialization of public policy. The method that this article is worth the descriptive about the problem with a view to proposing a legislative amendment in order to provide the court with an overview of the impacts of their decisions on specific public policy. The goal, then, is to demonstrate that the individual logic in which the process is based is incompatible with consequentialist logic that intervention in specific public policy requires. Thus, the possibility of "collectivization" of individual actions that impact public policy, and that such a proposal is not in the Code of Civil Procedure in discussion in Congress will propose herself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of the paper is to describe the design, development and consolidation of a measure method for the public perception of judicial performance in Brazil --the Brazilian Justice Confidence Index (JCIBRAZIL). Since April 2009, JCIBRAZIL has been published quarterly, amounting to twelve waves. The overall results point to a trend of poor assessment of the judiciary as a public service provider so that its slowness in response, its high cost and the difficult to use it. Although we have these results, the Brazilian policymakers should rely more closely on those statistics in order to align public policies to the improvement of the system. Attention must be given not only to the production of studies, research and data on the justice system, but also to the use and application of studies results and data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with three themes. Firstly, it highlights, following Dworkin, that equality is the sovereign virtue of the political community and if the government neglects the equal concern and respect for all citizens, it also abandons its legitimacy, which leads us to the important question of how has been built up the notion of equal concern and respect in Brazil. Secondly, it highlights that recent political and social changes have led the judiciary to assume an increasingly prominent position in the construction of truth in Western democracies, reflecting on the consequences of this shift of paradigm. Finally, crossing these two points, the article reflects on the importance, potentials and limits of the role of the judiciary to define the contents of the sovereign virtue of equality in contemporary Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this study was to identify, the main positions regarding the constitutionality of the Maria da Penha law (Law 11340/2006) in the Brazilian judicial system. As a result of political demands of the Brazilian feminist movement, the law has been at issue in the public sphere, and its constitutionality before the Supreme Federal Court has been pursued. The following issues were identified: i) a questioning of the law as a whole, considering its distinguished treatment of women, ii) a questioning of the law in that it precludes the enforcement of Law 9099/95; iii) the legislative competence to define petty crimes, iv) the support for subjection of the Judicial Branch and v) the constitutionality of law without background reasoning. By examining the arguments used in Courts of Justice, we intend to demonstrate how the establishment of the law is not limited to the legislative act, and the Judiciary can be the stage for disputes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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