Amnesties, pardons and transitional justice : (Record no. 126815)

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control field 9781315107950
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781315107950
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781351608602
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9781138091603
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.4324/9781315107950
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System control number (OCoLC)994557854
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Geographic area code e-sp---
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Classification number KKT4415
Item number .J56 2017
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 345.46077
Item number J617
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Jimeno Aranguren, Roldan.,
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Amnesties, pardons and transitional justice :
Remainder of title Spain's pact of forgetting /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Roldan Jimeno ; translated by Owen Harrington Fernandez.
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-- Abingdon, Oxon ;
-- New York, NY :
-- Routledge,
-- 2017.
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Extent 1 online resource
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Discourses of law
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction -- Background to Francoist Spain : granting pardons to the defeated in the war and enemies of the regime -- The beginnings of the transition -- The 1977 amnesty law and subsequent clemency measures -- Amnesty during in the post-transition years (1982-2007) -- Amnesty after the historical memory law (2007-2016) -- Conclusion.
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Summary, etc In a consolidated democracy, amnesties and pardons do not sit well with equality and a separation of powers; however, these measures have proved useful in extreme circumstances, such as transitions from dictatorships to democracies, as has occurred in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Focusing on Spain, this book analyses its transition, from 1936 up to the present, within a comparative European context. The amnesties granted in Greece, Portugal and Spain saw the release of political prisoners, but in Spain amnesty was also granted to those responsible for the grave violations of human rights which had been committed for 40 years. The first two decades of the democracy saw copious normative measures that sought to equate the rights of all those who had benefitted from the amnesty and who had suffered or had been damaged by the civil war. But, beyond the material benefits that accompanied it, this amnesty led to a sort of wilful amnesia which forbade questioning the legacy of Francoism. In this respect, Spain offers a useful lesson insofar as support for a blanket amnesty--rather than the use of other solutions within a transitional justice framework, such as purges, mechanisms to bring the dictatorship to trial for crimes against humanity, or truth commissions--can be traced to a relative weakness of democracy, and a society characterised by the fear of a return to political violence. This lesson, moreover, is framed here against the background of the evolution of amnesties throughout the twentieth century, and in the context of international law. Crucially, then, this analysis of what is now a global reference point for comparative studies of amnesties, provides new insights into the complex relationship between democracy and the varying mechanisms of transitional justice.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political crimes and offenses
Geographic subdivision Spain
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Transitional justice
Geographic subdivision Spain
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Amnesty
Geographic subdivision Spain
-- History.
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Personal name Harrington-Fernandez, Owen,
Relator term translator.
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Uniform Resource Identifier https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315107950
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