The judicial process as a source of research for different areas of knowledge: analysis of the process “o Monstro do Morumbi”

• Autor(a) principal: Rabelo, Leiliane Sodré
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Araújo, Paula Carina de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/45603
• topic: Processo judicial; Interdisciplinaridade; Fonte de pesquisa judicial; Monstro do Morumbi; Judicial process; Interdisciplinarity; Source of judicial research; Monster of Morumbi; Proceso judicial; Interdisciplinariedad; Fuente de investigación judicial; Monstruo de Morumbí

Objective: To analyze the judicial process as a potential source for the production of research in several areas of knowledge, since the documents produced by the bodies that make up the judiciary are of public interest and constitute a rich and varied source of information. Methodology: A descriptive research is carried out and makes use of documentary research to analyze the case of qualified homicide, from the Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Pará (TJPA), which involved the defendant João Paes Bezerra in the 1970s, considered one of the biggest cases of serial killer in Brazil. Results: The case became known as the “Monstro do Morumbi”. The procedural documents that make up this type of document have data, documents and information that represent a relevant source for scientific research in different areas of knowledge such as Criminology, Psychiatry, Sociology, among others, as well as a means for recording institutional memory, capable of to highlight the way in which certain cases are handled in the judicial sphere and the social relations of individuals in a certain period of history. Conclusions: The bodies of the Brazilian judiciary keep in their files numerous court cases with content that, in the same type of document, may be able to serve different studies and in areas that are not limited solely to the historical aspect of the information.