Goals
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​Identify and analyze the diplomatic processes for negotiating extradition agreements between Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Italy
The signing of agreements that predicted the crimes and established the process that would lead to an extradition reveal the priorities of each government. Thus, understanding the positions assumed by each nation in the signing of agreements is an important objective of this project.
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Identify and characterize extradition requests received, approved and refused among the countries mentioned in the project
Identifying individuals and crimes, characterizing the process in the various instances of power through which it passed, is central in the attempt to analyze extradition practices and their relationship with the emergence of transnational crime in the international sphere.
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To analyze the exchanges of information and the relationships established between diplomatic authorities in matters of transnational crime
Formal extradition processes are the end point of a reality that hides exchanges of information about individuals and concrete crimes or more diffuse fears around crime. It will seek to understand how heads of legation and consuls of the countries in question began to exchange information with their foreign counterparts and with other authorities in their country regarding criminal practices that transcend national borders.
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​To analyze the exchanges of information and the relationships established between police authorities in the countries under study
Diplomatic channels (and today their historical archives) allow us to go beyond the action of diplomatic agents: they also served to circulate information originating from other national authorities, including police forces. Starting from the diplomatic archives and moving on to the police archives, it is intended to understand when, how and why national police forces began to feel the need to establish relations with their foreign counterparts, especially those located on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Deepen the study of the circulation of police models in the Ibero-American space
In the more specific field of police history, this project will focus on the growing international relations between police forces, enabling an understanding of the process through which the "look at the other" began to influence the institutional, organizational and operational reform movement. on both sides of the Atlantic.