Relationship between judicial demand and workforce in State Courts in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Adalmir de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Buta, Bernardo Oliveira, Nunes, Rafael Rabelo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/72978
• topic: Court administration; State Court; caseload; congestion of courts; workforce.; Administración de la justicia; Justicia Estatal; demanda judicial; congestión de tribunales; fuerza de trabajo.; Administração da justiça; Justiça Estadual; demanda judicial; congestionamento de tribunais; força de trabalho.

The large number of judicial cases – caseload – and the inability to appropriately respond to such caseload is one of the main problems of the Brazilian Judiciary, and of many judiciaries around the world. Although Brazilian courts have been able to increase production capacity in recent years, the growing demand generates a sense of inefficiency and results in what is known as 'court congestion'. Several factors are related to congestion, and the present study seeks to test one of these factors: the work force. The objective is to describe the relationship between the rate of congestion of courts and the available work force. Data were collected on Justice in Numbers (CNJ) database and refer to state courts from 2009 to 2016. To analyze the data descriptive statistics and linear correlation techniques were used. Results indicate that congestion rate is positively correlated to the absolute workforce in justice. However, the correlation becomes negative when the workforce considered is proportional to the number of inhabitants. This indicates that the policy of personnel allocation in Brazilian state justice is misaligned with the caseload.