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From a critical perspective, this study analyzes some penal and criminological questions that can pose after the incorporation inside the penal system of the Spanish Penal Code of the new security measures for parole, also applicable to chargeable offences (art. 106 PC), by the successive and cumulative number of freedom restricting sentences and security measures imposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between criminal behavior and the risk factors, family criminal records and drug use, has been firmly established. With the aim of defining the role of these risk factors in the initiation and evolution of criminal behavior, a field study with prison inmates was designed. A survival analysis with the age at which the first unsanctioned crime was committed and the age at which entered by first instance into prison was applied to the data of 157 prison inmates in Villabona (Asturias, Spain). The results of a survival analysis showed that drug abuse re-offenders initiated in criminal acts at an earlier age (13 years) than the primary offenders (16 years); re-offenders from family criminal records began his/her criminal activity earlier (13 years) than primary ones (16 years); re-offenders with non-criminal family records, initiate in criminal acts at 14 years, whereas primary at 16; the recidivist drug abusers enter by first instance into prison earlier (19 years) than the primary ones; non-drug consuming primary offenders enter prison for the first time at the age of 24 whereas recidivists do so at the age of 19; the first entrance into prison of the recidivist with family criminal records occurs early (19 years), than for the primary offenders (23 years); and the recidivist prisoners of non-family criminal records cross the threshold of the prison by first time youngsters (21 years) than the primary inmates (26 years). The implications of these results may lead towards a more effective intervention against crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most of the literature on juvenile delinquency is aimed to the identification of the protective and risk factors of the antisocial and criminal behaviors. In this line, a study was carried out to assess whether the family setting, personal variables of the youngster and variables linked to the judicial measure execution mediate in recidivism. For this reason, all the closed judicial files of the young offenders from the Service of Juvenile Justice in Jaén (Spain) have been analysed. The results showed that such family setting variables as broken homes, large families, low incomes, deprived neighborhoods, criminal records, drug abuse, children protection records and crime legitimacy are linked to recidivism. As for personal variables of the youngster, the findings illustrate that re-offenders are characterized by external attribution, deficits in social skills, deficits in selfcontrol, violent behaviors and low tolerance to frustration. In relation to the judicial measure execution variables, data support that the non reoffenders are defined in contrast to re-offenders, by a high compliance with rules and timetables and with the established objectives, as well as a high family involvement during the judicial measure execution. The implications of the results for prevention of recidivism are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The association between criminal and addictive conduct has been debated in many studies, without today a causal direction could be established. The behavior turned aside from the individuals is a product of the interrelationship of several elements of risk that make his appearance more probable. One of these factors is the consumption of drugs, which in turn is going to be related to the history of life of the person. Therefore, this study centres on knowing the use and abuse that a sample of penitentiary boarders does of some substances, both legal and illegal, and the difference in relation with the level of criminal repetition, having in it counts the factors of the age of his first revenue in prison and the type of committed crime, indicating the associate motive of revenue in the Penitentiary establishment. The participants were 157 prisoners of Villabona's penitentiary establishment (Asturias), in the main males (94,9 %), whose ages include the range between 19 and 49 years. By virtue of the results, there has been verified that the repetition associates positively with the heroine's consumption in those crimes related to the public health and the property, being in the latter significantly the income in the Penitentiary Establishment to an earlier age. The implications of the results are discussed to achieve a competent adjustment looking for a reduction of the criminal activity and his repetition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We show the results of a study which analyzes the sentences of Domestic Violence Courts in the Basque Country. The period of study covers the years from 2004 to 2007. Four years that, on the other hand, are overlapped with the beginning of the ORGANIC LAW 1/2004 application, of Integral Protection Measures Against the Genre Violence. On this way, this work offers some indicators of evaluation about mentioned law, such as the incidence evolution of cases and the recidivism. Descriptive results about the profile of the victim and the imputed in the different forms of domestic violence registered are also offered. Challenges raised to resolve judicially this psychosocial problem and the difficulties to establish efficiency criteria of the laws that sanction the acts of violence produced in the domestic area are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on prison reforms and penitentiary policies in Argentina and Spain from 1890-1918. It examines the development of foundations dedicated to the assistance of former prisoners and ex-convicts released during this time period. The author studies the process of social rehabilitation that these institutions offered, along with an analysis of speeches delivered by prominent politicians and other important leaders in both Spain and Argentina related to these ex-convict institutions.

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