Keywords

• The Spanish anarchists between xix and xx century did not devote many pages to address the questione criminale. However much was written in the anarchist press about issues linked in one way or another to the debate about crime. The debates are constant about scientific issues
• about free will
• social organization
• disease
• conscience
• biology all topics that were booming
• and not coincidentally. In the search of secularization and rationality
• these issues were addressed by sociologists
• criminologists
• lawyers in the ongoing positivist debate trying to figure out what happened to certain human beings who
• unlike others
• chose or were determined to a life of crime. From anarchist positions
• the debate on this issue led them to deny free will
• defending a social determinism by which they blamed the capitalist form of social organization and state of the production of most crimes. In that same anarchist speech
• responsibility disappeared to refund an attack on the society calling for the abolition of the state and with it
• the penal system