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NUNEZ, Jorge Alberto  y  GONZALEZ ALVO, Luis Gabriel. Los viajes de estudio de Adolfo S. Carranza y la reforma penitenciaria en Tucumán (1911-1927). Rev. hist. derecho [online]. 2014, n.48, pp.121-141. ISSN 1853-1784.

The penitentiary reform movement was characterized from its very beginning by its spearheads' "traveler" spirit. While a large list of travelers could be issued among reformists, the "fathers" of the penitentiary classic school should at least be mentioned. John Howard (who, in spite of his health chronic problems, traveled across Europe to know their detention institutions), and Alexis Tocqueville, who was commissioned by the French government to the United States to study their penitentiary system. At the beginning of the XX century, and within the framework of the Argentine penitentiary reform, the lawyer Adolfo S. Carranza (who held a large professional experience in the province of Tucumán), returned to the traveling pad initiated by John Howard, carrying out several trips to South America (Chile and Brazil) and to Europe. This paper aims to reflect on a subject which has been barely addressed by the argentine legal and social historiography: the role of the "penitentiary travelers" and the evaluation of the impact in their local contexts and realities after the events throughout the adoption of foreign institutions. Therefore we shall focus on the trip carried out to Europe by Carranza in 1921 and the building of the new Penitentiary of Tucumán in the biennium 1925-1927.

Palabras clave : Carranza; Tucumán; Europe; Travels; Prisons.

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