PUNITIVE POPULISM. Reforms and counter-reforms undertaken in Spain on criminal, procedural-criminal law, penitentiary, police and jurisdictional areas over the latest decade (1995-2005)

Punitive populism is a governance strategy everyday more common in western countries. This strategy although not original seems to be unavoidable for political classes who are convinced that social conflicts ( and consequently, also the political ones) would be regulated by a harder application of Penal System. Reforms and counter-reforms which have being carried out in Spain on criminal and procedural-criminal law, as also on penitentiary, police and jurisdictional areas over the last decade (1995-2005) represent a paradigmatic era of this governance strategy.

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PUNITIVE POPULISM. Reforms and counter-reforms undertaken in Spain on criminal, procedural-criminal law, penitentiary, police and jurisdictional areas over the latest decade (1995-2005)

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