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1983
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Antonio Risco, « Les académies espagnoles et la réforme pénale », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1983.1444
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Antonio Risco : Spanish academies and penal reform. This article highlights the existence in 18th-century Spain of a certain number of academies created by and for letrado lawyers, and it tries to discern their true significance — as pressure groups or State agencies — through a consideration of the question of penal reform. The issues of the codification of criminal law, of torture and witchcraft, and, through them, that of punishment, enable us to conclude that these academies were instruments of the State, leading figures and pawns in a movement whose internal logic led them to reconsider, but also to reinforce, the state machinery.