Consequences of Post-Fascism in Security Policies in Spain
Consequences of Post-Fascism in Security Policies in Spain

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the features of the Spanish criminal justice system from the perspective of the late-democratisation condition of the Spanish polity. The text sees an almost uninterrupted expansionism and a relatively high level of severity as basic traits of the evolution of the Spanish criminal justice system. Consequently, the paper examines those features from the viewpoints of legal reforms, institutional practices and collective perceptions and expectations experienced since the end of the autocratic period. Finally, the article investigates some reasons which may explain the relatively high punitiveness of the Spanish criminal justice system, before adding a coda on the changes of the penal system fostered by the Great Recession.

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