Criminological literature has dedicated considerable efforts to identifying a common pattern in contemporary criminal policy developments, as well as discussing the factors that may explain these changes. Yet, the studies carried out thus far have almost exclusively focused on macro level analysis (political discourse and legislative analysis), disregarding the micro level; that is, the activities carried out by the agents in charge of supposedly putting into practice a new allegedly punitive control culture. The present study tries to fill, in some measure, this vacuum by providing knowledge of Spanish criminal court activity this century regarding homicide convictions. In short, our aim is to verify whether Spanish criminal courts have varied sentencing along the same lines as the (alleged) new punitive culture, or have remained oblivious to it, instead operating as a deterrent to its development. Furthermore, the study provides a detailed analysis of homicide sentences in Spain this century with the aim of identifying some explanatory factors regarding the final sentence.

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司法惩罚呢？西班牙凶杀案定罪研究（2000-2013）

犯罪学文献致力于确定当代刑事政策发展的共同模式，并讨论可能解释这些变化的因素。然而，迄今为止进行的研究几乎完全集中于宏观层面的分析（政治话语和立法分析），而忽视了微观层面；也就是说，负责实施据称是惩罚性控制的新文化的代理人所开展的活动。本研究试图通过提供有关本世纪西班牙刑事法庭关于凶杀定罪的活动的知识，在某种程度上填补这一真空。简而言之，我们的目标是验证西班牙刑事法院是否按照（所谓的）新惩罚文化的相同方式改变了量刑，或者一直无视它，而是对其发展起到威慑作用。此外，该研究还对本世纪西班牙的凶杀判决进行了详细分析，目的是确定有关最终判决的一些解释因素。