Opinion (José Lúcio / Columnist) Stop domestic violence?
The courts can not stop domestic violence. Do Not, They can not. Also can not stop corruption, for example. Let there be no illusions. They can not. The courts can judge all crimes that have them, but they never stopped any.
José Lúcio
Columnist Lidador News
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No need to make titles about it, as was novelty. The courts always knew. Every day the courts work knowing from experience that the next day will probably not be very different from this, as the above was also not.
This means that we must remain conformed to these and other ills of contemporary societies? Certainly not. What we are we should not entangle ourselves in such misconceptions, now common, to stretch the finger and point the courts as one could see what by nature they can not give.
I believe one day be possible to comment good news on the subject of domestic violence, or corruption, or sexual abuse. Societies evolve, mentalities change. But it is not the courts the protagonists of these transformations. The courts are not designed for social transformation tools.
Say domestic violence, or corruption, to continue with the same examples, It means to speak of individual behaviors that are explained in the tables of deeply rooted social practices. They can be combated, betting background in cultural changes, in civic education, in mentalities transformations that require a continuous collective effort, participated, demanding.
There are indeed many in multiple associations and civil society organizations who elected as its object precisely the intervention in these areas. There also lacks institutions to engage in these issues. However, despite the commitment and persistence of all these entities it seems that so far all his militancy succeeded not achieve the desired results.
Similarly and in the same sense live and work in the social body schools and churches, opinion movements, numerous different ways to influence behaviors and attitudes, starting with the powerful media, and they also so far failed to produce the desired results in these areas.
Speaking of prevention, likewise it can be seen that entities aimed to prevent, such as the various police forces and bodies set up precisely to detect and timely prevent such conduct does not appear to have achieved important successes in their activity.
We can not deny what has been done, but it is clear that the balance is not satisfactory - and it even has been a notorious eco public dissatisfaction.
But that purpose is to say that the courts are located downstream in these dynamic realities that are concerned, is domestic violence, is corruption, are sexual abuse, to continue the examples. All this is well upstream, and only in its own grounds these realities may eventually be changed.
What can be expected is that the courts are able to do what we all fail. Do Not, are not the courts will stop domestic violence. Do Not, it is not the courts that will stop corruption. Of course it is also up to them no small part in the common task (jurisprudence, moreover, played important role in the maturation of historical changes in issues at other times as problematic as these) and that contribution can not be denied.
Yet, the obvious has to be said. The good success of the fight against these sad realities depends not only on the courts, not depends mainly on them.
(Text written under the previous rule to spell AO1990, by the author's option)
