“…The tendency of legislatures in many countries to employ these social demands (Varona, 2008) has been defined and studied particularly in the international literature (Green, 2006;Hough & Roberts, 1998;Maruna & King, 2004;Roberts, Stalans, Indermaur, Hough, 2003;Roberts & Hough, 2005;Allen, 2002;Roberts, 1992;Haines, 2007;Cullen, Skovron, Scott & Button, 1990). Since the 1990s, multiple studies have examined citizens' attitudes towards the criminal justice system (Aizpurúa & Fernández Molina, 2011;Aizpurúa, 2014; by attempting to analyse the hypothesis offered by Garland's (2001) theory of the "culture of control," or, more clearly, by the thesis of punitive populism introduced by Bottoms (1995, cited in Dzur, 2012. In Spain, authors such as Varona ( 2008), Aizpurúa and Fernández Molina (2011), Fernández Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica Artículo 3, Número 17 (2019) https://doi.org/10.46381/reic.v17i0.227 www.criminologia.net ISSN: 1696-9219 Molina and Gómez Tarancón (2010), have carried out major studies whose main goal is to confirm, according to Anglo-Saxon literature, whether the "social demand" that legislators claim to justify revising the criminal code truly exists, and that evaluate social demands of the public with respect to the violation of norms (Fernández Molina & Tarancón Gómez, 2010;Varona, 2008;2009), as well as the effects of informed public opinion on their punitive demands (Aizpurúa & Fernández Molina, 2011;Varona, 2016).…”