Bács-Kiskun megye múltjából 22. (Kecskemét, 2007)

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ÁGOTA TÁNCZOS-SZABÓ AN ADDITION TO THE HISTORY OF 'JURISDICTION' IN THE 1950S ADJUDICATING PRACTISE OF THE BACS-KISKUN COUNTY COURTS IN CASES OF PUBLIC SUPPLY The criminal defence of economic order, which was explained with the necessity of the population's direct supply in the earlier wartime and at the time of reconstructions, gained a totally different function from the 1950s. Public supply cases became tools of the communist power's grandiose ecomomic idea. In the studied period of Hungary the current public supply system and the order of forced surrender for the peasantry hindered the regeneration and development of the agriculture. The most effective and certain way of capital absorption from agriculture was taxation and the restriction of sale on the open market. By these actions, as it is well known, the political power tried to help the development of heavy industry. The consequence of this economic policy, namely the leaving of lands, the large-scale pauperization of the peasantry, the bankruptcy of social strata that were able to commodity production had a serious effect on the country's food-supply. The political leadership didn't want to solve this situation by correcting the economic policy, rather they started to call the 'sinners' to account. In this period handling agricultural problems as criminal ones became a general custom.