The Senian theory of capabilities, brings an approach to development based on the expansion
of human freedoms and capabilities. The present work, backed by this theory, had as its object
of study the Senian capacities / freedoms by researching the demands presented to the Public
Defender of the State of Tocantins (DPETO), in the city of Araguaína-TO, in the northern
region, and had as general objective to investigate the demands presented to DPETO, and in the
specific objectives, a reflection was made on the role provided by the Public Defender's Office
as an instrument for effecting public policies, and as a means that enables the identification of
freedom restrictions, and allows users to discuss them. , carried out a mapping of the profile of
users who resort to DPETO and the geographic distribution of these users in the municipality
of Araguaína-TO, and identified which freedoms were being denied to these users. The State
Public Defender's Office was established in Araguaína in 1990, and its constitutional purpose
is to provide full and free legal assistance to the underprivileged, and it must be dispersed in
society. Between 2015 and 2018, the Public Defender's Office provided 71.671 thousand
services to people residing in the city of Araguaína, this high number of services is the result of
a scenario of exclusions and inequalities, because despite the city being considered as the
“economic capital of State ”lives with elementary problems and many social conflicts resulting
from an accelerated urbanization process. The Free and Comprehensive Legal Assistance
service competes to guarantee access to justice, which stems from two important constitutional
commands, the right to democracy and the right to equality, and was created by the constituent
legislator as an instrument of social change. This study is exploratory and descriptive and its
operational methodology is bibliographic, documentary, quantitative, statistical, and survey
research. This study revealed that the profile of users of the Public Defender's Office of the
State of Tocantins, in the municipality of Araguaína-TO, is made up of people who have a
family income of up to 2 minimum wages, with a low level of education, most of whom are
brown (74,65%); Among the 49 types of demands, those that appear most frequently are: food,
divorces, Public Treasury and Public Registry, criminal / JECrim, guidelines, civil and
consumer actions, custody and regulation of visits, paternity investigation, domestic violence
and family right. The study allowed an understanding of the various socio-spatial conjectures,
and how the under-dependent people are acting as participatory agents, using public instruments
to modify their present. Some of these rights refer to the substantive freedoms discussed and
defended by Amartya Sen.
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