Abstract
Although the presence of psychology in the field of social public policies is already in the process of consolidation, the insertion of this professional in the evaluation of these policies is still recent and academic production on this topic is practically non-existent. In this article, we discuss the performance of psychologist in evaluating social policies and services, based on the work developed by this professional in the Public Prosecution Office of São Paulo. Social policies - and the institutions that enforce them - are considered as ambivalent, since they aim to meet the basic needs of citizens but can act as mechanisms for control and appeasement of social conflicts. Thus, in the evaluation processes, the psychologist must focus on the processes of subjectivation engendered by social policies and the institutions that embody them - be it in the people assisted, in the policy enforcers themselves (technicians and other employees), in the communities where they are inserted, in the social groups that feel their effects, and in society as a whole -, thus evidencing the subjective dimension of social phenomena and running for the implementation of policies and services that meet the real needs of those they serve and that contribute to social transformation and to the production of emancipated subjectivities.
Keywords:
Social psychology; Legal psychology; Evaluation of public policies; State Public Prosecutor