Prison and punitive culture in the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936)

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Published 04-10-2012
Luis Gargallo Vaamonde

Abstract

The proclamation of the Second Republic brought a change in the orientation of the Spanish prison policy. The key was the appointment of Victoria Kent as Director General of Prisons. She began to perform the correctional projects that had been growing in the previous decades. However, prison reform was short lived. In 1932, after the dismissal of Victoria Kent, started a real counter-reform, a return to the punitive-segregative concept of punishment that would last until the beginning of the Civil War, when the republican legality was completely erased in the horrors of war.

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Keywords

Spanish Second Republic, prison, social history, Victoria Kent

Section
Miscellany