Comparative criminal policy studies usually analyse penal intervention based on its
greater or lesser punitivism. With the intention of enriching the debate in this area of
knowledge, the welfarist penal model proposes to evaluate the effects of penal
intervention through the social inclusion/social exclusion dimension. This analytical
dimension has been developed from its social exclusionary perspective, which seeks to
identify the exclusionary effect that the penal intervention produces on suspected,
prosecuted, convicted and ex-convicted persons. To do that, we apply the RIMES, a
political-criminal instrument validated to measure the social exclusion of punitive rules
and practices included in nine pools or dimensions of the penal system, with the ultimate
purpose of creating a continuum of socially exclusive penal systems. The aim of this
presentation is to discuss the results obtained in the pool of legal safeguards after the
application of the RIMES instrument in six jurisdictions: four European -Spain, England
and Wales, Italy, and Poland-, and two American -New York, California-.
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