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The present article aims to analyze the economic and sociocultural background of the behavior of crimes against property, public order and people, as well as their judicial and police repression in the Cuban province of Pinar del Río between 1944-1951. The main sources were the judicial files, the written press, and the historicalcriminal records of the prisons, with which they reconstructed the criminal statistics of the period. Among the causes of the occurrence of these crimes and their persecution are the processes of social readjustment that occurred after the Revolution of the 1930s, the economic situation generated after the Second World War, the consequences of the performance of the governments of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (Auténtico), and the centuries-old processes of racial discrimination that marked the actions of the police and justice institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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