Desafios da informação e acesso à justiça na fase pré-processual: Um estudo sobre os impactos socioeconômicos e propostas de aprimoramento

Abstract

This paper addresses the challenges faced by the population in accessing justice, focusing on the lack of legal information and it’s legal and social implications. The research emphasizes the importance of ensuring not only physical access to the courts, but also effective access, by removing barriers such as the lack of knowledge about fundamental rights. The study is divided into four chapters, the first of which contextualizes the topic and analyzes the main obstacles faced by the population in accessing justice. The second chapter addresses the lack of legal information, identifying its relationship with socioeconomic inequalities, linguistic and geographic barriers, and the complexity of the judicial system. The third chapter discusses the impacts of this lack of information in the pre-trial phases, both in the criminal and civil spheres, highlighting how this affects the effectiveness of justice. The fourth and final chapter emphasizes the need to overcome these barriers and proposes strategies to ensure more equitable access to justice, such as legal literacy and the dissemination of information on alternative forms of conflict resolution, such as conciliation and mediation. The research concludes that the lack of information is a crucial obstacle, which must be addressed by public policies and educational actions, to ensure that all citizens can exercise their rights fully, quickly and effectively, without the burden of bureaucracy and the slowness of the judicial system.