Reinserção Social Através da Pena de Prestação de Serviço à Comunidade:

Estudo Realizado na Vara de Execução de Penas e Medidas Alternativas de Fortaleza/CE

Abstract

The community service penalty, despite still being a reality in construction, has been gaining notoriety as a legal instrument of criminal public policy for the social reintegration of people involved in non-violent infractions or misdemeanors. The alternative punishments emerged as a sort of sentence that inaugurates a perspective to obtain the results, as a rule, not archived by the failed prison sentence. Among the species of this kind, the community service penalty stands out, with a public policy label and content, observes a whole cycle of training, including interesting practical application in the locus of this research, in this case, in the “Vara de Execução de Penas e Medidas Alternativas” (VEPMA). The research works, as a central axis, with rich bibliography on the subject and, as a field research, with the collection of procedural and enforceable data imposed by the convicts, as well as identifying points worthy of greater attention. After the general overview, with the evaluation of variables and crossed information, such as biological sex, age, marital status, profession and crime committed, the answer to the proposed problem is arrived at by measuring the social reintegration and recidivism obtained through the imposition of community service penalty.