Primary researcher
Jose Luis Díez-Ripollés
Full Professor of Criminal Law and honorary head of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Malaga. His vast experience as a researcher and consultant in criminal justice policy and his numerous publications have put him at the forefront of this subject in Spain. He is founding member of the Criminal Justice Policy Study Group.[cv]
Research team (according to date of incorporation to the project)
Elisa García-España
Full Professor of Penal Law and Criminology, Vicedirector at the Criminology Institute of the University of Malaga and director of the Observatory about Criminal Justice Responses towards Immigration (OCSPI), for its Spanish acronym). Her research interests include how formal social control mechanisms respond to immigrants. [cv]
Ana Isabel Cerezo Domínguez
Full Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, and head of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Malaga. Her areas of research and specialization span the subjects of cybercrime, victimology, prisons and women & criminal justice. [cv]
Juan Muñoz-Sánchez
Full Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Malaga. His main lines of research include the response of the criminal justice system to crimes against public health and intervention with drug-dependent offenders [cv]
Fátima Pérez-Jiménez
Assistant professor of Criminal Law and Criminology. Her mains lines of research are Juvenile justice system and Green Criminology. [cv]
Pablo Rando-Casermeiro
Lecturer of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Seville. His research involves political-legal analysis of Criminal and Administrative sanctions, Intellectual Property Crimes and Social Exclusion generated by Criminal Justice Systems.
María Izco Rincón
Graduated in Criminology and Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Policy. She is doing her PhD about desistance and women in spanish prisons. Her areas of interest also include safety policies with gender perspective and violence against women.
Lorea Arenas-García
Lorea Arenas is lecturer in Criminology at the University of Extremadura. She has several master’s degrees in Crime and Social intervention with Minors, Criminal law and Criminal policy, Applied Sociology and Advanced Statistical Methods. She has obtained various founded visiting fellowships and has participated as a speaker in national and international conferences. Her main areas of research are electronic monitoring, green criminology and criminal policy.
María Contreras-Román
Maria Contreras-Román is PhD in Legal and Social Sciences. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CRIMINA at the University of Elche. María has been Lecturer of Criminology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and at the University of Malaga. She has participated in research projects on crime desistance and social reintegration processes, community penalties, immigrant delinquency, sentencing and collateral consequences of the sanction. As common denominator of her work is the interest in analyzing the effectiveness of the criminal justice system. [cv]
José Becerra-Muñoz
Assistant professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Málaga, researcher at the Málaga division of the Institute of Criminology, coordinator of the Spanish Criminal Law Making Policy Group, coordinator of the Criminal Law Making Policy Working Group (European Society of Criminology), and coordinator of the COPO Network (Cooperating for Crime Prevention and Optimization of Security).
Noelia Corral Maraver
Associate Professor of Criminal Law at Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED). Her main research topics are European Criminal Law, Criminal Law-Making, Imprisonment Penalties, Terrorism, Collateral Sanctions. She has obtained several scholarships and research contracts at the pre- and post-doctoral stages, and she has carried out research stays in several prestigious international institutions. She also gives lectures in undergraduate and in master’s degree courses in Law and Criminology.
Elena Casado Patricia
Graduate in Criminology from the University of Malaga, Master’s Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Policy and Master’s Degree in Applied Sociology from the same University and PhD in Legal and Social Sciences. She is currently a lecturer and researcher in the Criminal Law Department (Department of Public Law) at the University of Malaga. Her main lines of research are procedural justice, juvenile justice and immigration. She has carried out several pre-doctoral and post-doctoral research stays in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Chile and Spain. She has several scientific publications and has participated in numerous national and international conferences.
Bertha Prado Manrique
Graduated in Law and Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Policy. She is doing her PhD about South American criminal policy and social exclusion. Her research interests also include criminal legislative policy, immigration and human rights.
Patricia Bello San Juán
Graduated in Law and Criminology and Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Policy. She is doing her PhD about violence against women during pregnancy, birth and puerperium. Her research interests are focused on victim studies through criminal legislative policy and new technologies and crime.
Jacqueline Carvalho Da Silva
Graduated in Social Sciences, holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Sociology. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Andalusian Interuniversity Institute of Criminology, Málaga and collaborating professor at the Criminology grade of the University of Malaga. Her main areas of interest are police organizations, immigration, and media.
Cristina Güerri
Cristina Güerri is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Criminology at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research has mainly focused on prisons and imprisonment, where she has worked on topics like quality of prison life, prison officers, imprisoned migrants, deportations from prison, body searches, or complaints and requests.
Cristina Palomino Jiménez
Graduated in Criminology and Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Policy. She is doing her PhD about the relation between mental illness, women and imprisonment. Her main areas of interest also include punitive populism, connection between criminal policy and media and the gender-sensitive research.
Angie Steffania Rojas Varón
Graduated in Criminology and Master in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice. She is research support technician at the Andalusian Interuniversity Institute of Criminology of the University of Malaga. Her research interests include human rights, immigration, imprisonment and juvenile delinquency.
Carmen Rodríguez Hidalgo
Graduated in Criminology and Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences. She is doing her PdH focuses on social exclusion and Young offenders. Her areas of interest also include social reintegration, gender perspective and connections between urban environment and crime.
Methodology consultants
María José Blanca
Full Professor in the Department of Psychobiology and Behavioural Sciences Methodology at the University of Malaga. Her research activity focuses on methodological issues, experimental designs and methodological applications in different fields. She has collaborated with research groups in many branches of the Social Sciences. [cv]
Rebecca Bendayan
Research Associate at University College London. She specialises in Methodology of Behavioural Science and Health. Her doctoral thesis was on the robustness of statistical procedures for the analysis of longitudinal data. She has been visiting scholar at the University of Manchester, the University of California and the University of Bristol. [cv]