Author : Josep Maria Tamarit Sumalla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1780681437
Historical Memory and Criminal Justice in Spain by Josep Maria Tamarit Sumalla Pdf
This book analyses, above all, the laws, policies and judicial decisions adopted in Spain that were related to the construction of the past and could therefore be understood as measures of transitional justice. By comparing this experience with transitional decisions adopted in other countries, the book highlights the main features of the Spanish case and the lessons that can be learned from it. Measures adopted during the transitional period, such as the amnesty and subsequent decisions aimed at giving some kind of partial reparation to the victims of the repression, are here studied. Demands for reviewing the past, the 2007 Act of Historical Memory, and the controversial use of criminal justice are also considered. Criminal Law is hardly applicable to the facts of the past, but the purely amnesic option can no longer be defended.