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GRAGERA, Julia Pulido  y  PASCUAL, Daniel Sansó-Rubert. Corruption in Spanish Democracy. An approach since criminal and political aspects. URVIO [online]. 2020, n.26, pp.105-122. ISSN 1390-4299.  https://doi.org/10.17141/urvio.26.2020.4131.

Corruption is one of the criminal phenomena that most concern contemporary societies. This article analyzes the links between the processes of corruption and organized crime in Spain, addressing the mechanisms of infiltration and exchange of criminal networks in public institutions. To this end, the concept of corruption and organized crime will be explained from a dual political and criminological perspective, as well as the impact on the decision-making processes and the social perception of these issues.Spain, in recent decades, has experienced a rise in corruption, especially in the field of politics, as evidenced by the exponential increase in cases investigated by the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor. Reality, which has raised concerns about the configuration of a political scenario prone to corruption, which generates an attractive effect for organized crime in the face of the institutional vulnerability of the political system and the Public Administration, in the face of the practice of corrupt practices. Scenario, which has been the subject of analysis and whose radiography is exposed in this work.

Palabras clave : Corruption; Spain; organized crime; democracy..

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