Resumo: Os freqüentes debates acerca da judicialização de políticas públicas têm chamado atenção para a ideia do custo dos direitos e, consequentemente, para a necessária relação entre orçamento e concretização de direitos fundamentais. Nesse contexto, os orçamentos participativos, objeto deste trabalho, ganham destaque enquanto importantes instrumentos democráticos de exercício de cidadania, inclusão social, reconfiguração do espaço público e adequada distribuição de recursos. Palavras-chave:Orçamento participativo, direitos fundamentais, cidadania, processo decisório. Realizing Fundamental Rights: the Time and Turn of Participatory BudgetingAbstract: The frequent debates about the judicialization of public policy have drawn attention to the idea of rights´ cost and consequently to the necessary relation between budgeting and realization of fundamental rights. In this context, participatory budgets, object of this work, are highlighted as major democratic instruments of citizenship exercise, social inclusion, reconfiguration of public space and appropriate distribution of resources.Keywords: Participatory budgeting, fundamental rights, citizenship, decision-making process. I-IntroduçãoNos últimos anos, tem havido intensos debates jurídicos relacionando os direitos fundamentais sociais, a força normativa da Constituição, os custos dos direitos e a judicialização das políticas públicas, sob o pano de fundo da necessidade de redução das desigualdades sociais brasileiras e da universalização do acesso à educação, saúde, moradia, saneamento básico. Muitas conclusões podem ser extraídas de tal debate, mas talvez uma das mais interessantes e menos exploradas seja a relação entre orçamento, cidadania e efetivação de direitos.A proposta do presente artigo é trilhar um breve e simplificado caminho dos direitos fundamentais ao orçamento, e deste a modernas propostas de gestão pública baseada na participação cidadã em processos decisórios, para chegar a uma introdução do orçamento

Feminist studies show that, before the enactment of the Maria da Penha Law, family was used as a moral category able to justify the restriction protection to women victims of domestic violence. By talking about gender, the Maria da Penha Law recognized the family as violent and introduced a new criminal policy that framed such violence as part of the broad precarization of women's lives, expressed in the home but also in schools, in the media, in public policy. Given this new framework, this paper seeks to discuss the intelligibility of domestic violence by analyzing court records of cases filed under the Maria da Penha Law in the Federal District between 2006 and 2012. This is a mixed methods study conducted with a random, stratified sample of 318 lawsuits. For the quantitative phase of the research, the use of urgent protection measures was analyzed. The frequencies of the granting of protection measures such as prohibiting approach (69%) and contact (66%) with the victim and determining offenders to stay way from the home (53%) were significantly higher than the measures involving some sort of reconfiguration of domestic arrangements, such as suspension of child visitation (15%) and temporary alimony (4%). In the qualitative part of the study, the analysis of the psychosocial intervention performed with groups of offenders showed that this penal alternative focused on verifying attendance of defendants to meetings and describing the violence they perpetrated as misdeeds of misfits husbands. This body of evidence suggests that the family as a moral category no longer prevents criminal justice interventions in domestic violence scenarios, but shows that it can be subjected to a normalizing treatment. The judicial responses analyzed prioritized the preservation of family structure and were legitimized by aiming to protect women through the submission of offenders to surveillance technologies. In conclusion, the paper proposes that the judicial practices under the Maria da Penha Law in the Federal District between 2006 and 2012 were aimed at family stabilization.