The Criminal Investigation in Brazil:

a proposal of performance evaluation based on the international experience

Abstract

The crime statistics in Brazil have long been one of the main elements of destabilization and, consequentially, of concern of the Brazilian society. In the mensuration of those statistics, the homicide rates are taken as the main factor. As a logic aftermath, when the efficiency of the public safety in a specific country are evaluated, the control of those rates is the central point of the analyses. Considering the clearance of the homicides perpetrated as one of the indispensable tools for the diminishing of the crime rates, the research put lights on the specific performance assessment of the criminal investigation, keeping as a goal to demonstrate eventual criterions of evaluation which can improve the efficiency of the activity in question. In order to achieve this goal, based on foreign literature, exposing empiric elements that show a possible path to be followed in the assessment of the investigation of homicides in Brazil is seeked, at the end suggestion the adoption of assessment criterion for which some convergence conclusion has been noted regard to its relevance and efficacy specifically related to the criminal investigation as a public function embodied with a peculiar and exclusive core