Introduction to historical studies on crime control

Abstract

Historical research in Spain and Latin America has naturally and discerningly incorporated the notion of social control into the conceptual heritage of current historiographical trends. Of course, the focus of social control as “punitive control” continues to be predominant, something perfectly explicable if one observes the centers of interest that today mark the historiographical agendas, although it is no less true that sometimes it is thrown into There is a lack of a critical and express exercise of the authentic function of the penal system and of the set of formal and informal practices that contribute to the structuring of order and the management of disorder, not all of them strictly punitive and much less punitive.