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The CINCRA project - International Collaborations: Crime and Police Cooperation in the Ibero-American Atlantic 1870-1940 has the main objective of to study the extradition processes of criminals between countries of South Europe and America of the South, since the increase of Atlantic mobility, in the 1870s, to the beginning of the Second World War.
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In this way, it is intended to contribute to the study of transnational crime and the development of diplomatic and police cooperation relations in the fight against new forms of crime, integrating them into a global history of crime, surveillance and criminal justice.
Historiography on topics such as the repression of anarchism, trafficking in people or drugs has emphasized that, at the end of the 19th century, nation-states began to rehearse strategies of cooperation in the repression of criminal practices that transcended national borders. One of the cooperation strategies was the signing of agreements that facilitated the extradition of individuals accused or convicted of certain crimes and the extradition of individuals based on an increasingly intense exchange of criminal information between diplomatic and police authorities. There is, however, no study on the individuals who were effectively extradited and the processes that led to this action. On the other hand, geographically, international historiography has been mostly concentrated in the North Atlantic or, when focusing on Latin America, dedicated mainly to the relations established between States in this region of the globe. This research seeks to fill both gaps.