The Maria da Penha Law (Law No. 11.340/2006) was introduced in Brazil in August 2006 with the aim of reducing domestic violence against women. The strategy implemented has three components: 1) Improvements in the criminal justice system to reduce and punish domestic violence; 2) Implementation of support measures to assist women at risk; and 3) Promotion of public campaigns to change social norms.
The reform introduced by the Maria da Penha Law presents a set of innovative public policies aimed at:

This is a specialized program for parents and guardians with substance use problems who, because of that, were separated from their children by the guardianship council. The goal is to reunite parents or guardians and their children, ensuring the safety and well-being of the family.
The parents and/or guardians must not have a history of serious mental disorders or a history of sexual assault and serious offenses that have resulted in imprisonment. The specialized court consists of a single judge responsible for both substance use and childcare.

This is a telephone support program for female victims of intimate partner violence. The goal is to reduce victimization, optimize response times, and improve the health and well-being of victims.
The program directs women to follow-up community services, helps them overcome barriers to accessing help, and provides them with social assistance. Victims are identified through the assessment of women with children seen in the pediatric emergency department.
The program applies motivational interviewing during care and is structured in five phases:
1) Assessment;

This strategy provides for an immediate policing approach to public disorder to improve physical and social order in high-crime areas.
The policing approach is developed through three components:
1) Increased arrests for minor offenses, including arrests for public order infractions;
2) Situational prevention strategies, aimed at improving disorder in targeted areas;
3) Actions of social services, including social assistance services as police partners, which help to increase social order.

This is an intervention to encourage the control of ID documents pertaining to young customers by employees of establishments that sell alcoholic beverages. The objective is to improve control of the rules restricting the sale of alcoholic beverages and prevent consumption among adolescents.
The intervention consists of sending young people of legal age to buy alcoholic beverages in the establishments and verifying the document control policy applied by the sales team.

This is a program to assist individuals incarcerated for the first time for driving under the influence of alcohol with the goal of reducing drunk driving rates.
These first-time offenders are incarcerated for 28 days in a minimum-security facility and receive culturally tailored multicomponent treatment.
There are nine specific treatment components:
1) Alcohol consumption, abuse, and dependence;
2) Health and nutrition;
3) Psychological effects of alcohol abuse;
4) Drinking and driving awareness;
5) Stress management;

This is a culturally tailored program for Latino immigrant parents and their children with a history of mild to moderate behavioral problems. The objective is to promote a positive parent-child relationship, develop children’s social and emotional skills, reduce antisocial behaviors through effective interventions, intensify parental supervision of children, and assist families in negotiation and problem-solving.
The program combines cultural elements associated with the immigrant experience, such as notions of “coping” and “education,” with five intervention components:

This is a program implemented by the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court. The goal is to reduce the abuse of alcohol and other drugs, as well as criminal recidivism.
The program uses an accountability approach that includes the following components:
1) Monitoring and evaluation;
2) Individualized treatment plan;
3) Legal supervision;
4) Community treatment;
5) Specialized hearing;
6) Periodic hearings;
7) Adherence and progress monitoring;
8) Sanctions and incentives;
9) Comprehensive services;

This is a multicomponent program to monitor gang-involved adolescents and their families in order to reduce crimes associated with juvenile gangs and violence.
It provides social assistance, educational and therapeutic accompaniment, and specific community actions, which are developed in each community in three stages: prevention, intervention with police actions and justice, and reinsertion programs for young people leaving the prison system.

This is a public surveillance program aimed at preventing crime and disorder through the installation of video surveillance cameras.
Those video surveillance cameras were installed in high-crime areas, equipped with night and panoramic vision devices, and the viewing monitors were located in the monitoring center, where the image records were archived for a maximum of two weeks.