This article analyzes the spatial and temporal patterning of political arrests during the initial years of the fascist regime in Italy, specifically from 1926 to 1928. During these crucial years, Italy's fascists acted rapidly to consolidate their power and to suppress their opponents. A key element of this takeover was the creation of a political court, the Special Tribunal. I examine the work of the Special Tribunal in two ways. First, I analyze the spatial patterning of political arrests on different scales, ranging from local to national. Second, using Agamben's concept of ‘states of exception’, I investigate how the fascists used political crises to further their activities of political suppression. I argue that while the Special Tribunal did target political enemies, it was also used as a sophisticated system of control of territory and population. Drawing on the techniques of the emerging field of historical geographic information systems (GIS), I use the Knox Index and hotspot analysis to focus on the role played by space and place in the fascist system of political oppression. This article contributes to a growing body of historical research focusing on the spatial dynamics of authoritarian regimes in interwar and wartime Europe and the geographies of their carceral practices.

本文分析了意大利法西斯政权最初几年，特别是 1926 年至 1928 年期间政治逮捕的时空模式。在这些关键时期，意大利的法西斯主义者迅速采取行动巩固他们的权力并镇压他们的对手。这次接管的一个关键因素是建立一个政治法庭，即特别法庭。我从两个方面审视特别法庭的工作。首先，我分析了从地方到国家的不同尺度上政治逮捕的空间格局。其次，使用阿甘本的“例外状态”概念，我研究了法西斯分子如何利用政治危机来推进他们的政治镇压活动。我认为，虽然特别法庭确实针对政敌，它还被用作控制领土和人口的复杂系统。借鉴历史地理信息系统 (GIS) 这一新兴领域的技术，我使用诺克斯指数和热点分析来关注空间和地点在法西斯政治压迫制度中所扮演的角色。本文为越来越多的历史研究做出了贡献，这些研究侧重于两次世界大战和战时欧洲威权政权的空间动态及其监禁实践的地理区域。