Over the first decade of this century, Spain was a primary destination of international migrants. Successive Spanish governments have addressed this phenomenon by implementing a number of control measures, largely aimed at securing external and internal borders. However, the persistence of the economic crisis has led to the readjustment of the whole system of migration control. This article intends to shed light on the underlying rationales of the current transformation of Spanish policies within this field. It will scrutinise the implications of the managerial turn in the Spanish apparatus of deportation and conclude by outlining a range of legal reforms grounded in a human rights perspective.
When analysing the features of the Spanish criminal justice system from the perspective of the late-democratisation of the Spanish polity, the system's evolution is characterised by an almost uninterrupted penal expansionism and a relatively prominent level of severity. This paper examines those features from the viewpoints of the legal reforms, institutional practices and collective perceptions and expectations experienced since the end of the dictatorial period. In addition, the article explores 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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