THE INFLUENCE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON DECISIONS REGARDING TEMPORARY DETENTION, HOUSE TEMPORARY DETENTION AND CONDITIONAL RELEASE RELATING TO THE CRIME OF DRUG TRAFFICKING (ART. 33 OF THE ANTI-DRUGS LAW) IN THE STATE JUSTICE OF AMAPÁ (2020 AND 2021).
“War on drugs”; judicial speech; Covid-19 pandemic; Recommendation 62/2020 of National Council of Justice;
This research aims to analyze, in a critical and anti-prohibitionist criminology perspective, how the Covid-19 pandemic influenced the criminal orders (temporary detention, house temporary detention and conditional release) in decisions handed down in arrest records in detention between March 2020 and December of 2021, regarding the crime of drug trafficking (art. 33 of Law 11.343/06). To this end, we seek to verify the application (or not) of Resolution 62/2020 of the National Council of Justice and also how the pandemic was mentioned in the discourse of the decisions. In addition, it was possible to glimpse the judicial practice of Amapá State regarding the “war on drugs” and how this was mentioned in the judicial discourse in the early years of the pandemic. In the course of the
research, 124 decisions handed down by judges from the 12 districts of the State Judiciary were analyzed, and it was found that the Covid-19 pandemic influenced judicial practice, mainly with regard to the process of arrests, but not was, at least explicitly, the main reason for the decisions.