Therapeutic justice in S��o Paulo

This book has as its research object the interface between drug addiction and criminality from a look at the City of São Paulo. An increasing number of people who commit some crime as a way to get money to use narcotic substances or because they have used narcotic substances end up committing crimes which leads us to think about the relationship between the user of psychoactive substances and criminal practice hence the need to implement the Therapeutic Justice a partnership between Justice and Health a type of treatment directed to the authors of illegal acts of less offensive potential associated with the consumption of narcotic substances. It is already a benefit of the Law in which the user instead of serving time commits to a treatment monitored by the judiciary. In historical terms it is still a very recent modality in Brazil it began to be implemented in Rio Grande do Sul in 1999 and has been extended to other Brazilian states such as Rio de Janeiro Recife and others. In São Paulo it started in 2002/2003 in the Santana Forum an action initiated by the Public Ministry by the prosecutor Dr. Mário Sergio Sobrinho.