A colaboração premiada como instituto de resolutividade no âmbito do sistema de justiça do estado do Tocantins: uma análise comparativa entre processos com e sem a aplicação do instituto entre os anos de 2014 a 2024

Abstract

This Dissertation aims to demonstrate the effectiveness and resoluteness of the plea bargaining within the criminal justice system of the State of Tocantins between 2014 and 2024, contrasting it with the traditional criminal procedural rite. The research problem focuses on the chronic slowness of the Brazilian criminal justice system and the need for more efficient tools to combat macro-criminality, such as corruption and organized crime. The methodology is quali-quantitative and explanatory, based on documentary research and jurisprudential analysis, and structured in a comparative case study involving 12 effectively approved Plea Bargaining agreements and 15 analogous criminal cases conducted under the ordinary rite. The analysis used theoretical saturation for sample delimitation and content analysis (Bardin, 1977) and comparative analysis for data interpretation. The results demonstrate that Plea Bargaining is an indispensable tool for resoluteness, showing high investigative and material efficacy: the total value of assets recovered or committed via compensation in Plea Bargaining cases in Tocantins totals R$ 4,720,000.00, significantly surpassing recovery in ordinary rites. Furthermore, Plea Bargaining provides celerity in the homologation phase (less than 30 days) and robust corroborative evidence for the vertical mapping of criminal structures, reaching high governmental echelons. It is concluded that Plea Bargaining strengthens the justice system by ensuring accountability in a reasonable time and the recovery of damages, decisively fulfilling the state's function of combating corruption and organized crime.