Principal Investigator
Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues is assistant professor at the University Lusíada Norte and invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. Her thesis “Antigos Combatentes Africanos das Forças Armadas Portuguesas: a Guerra Colonial como Território de (Re)conciliação” [Former African Combatants of the Portuguese Armed Forces: the Colonial War as a Territory of (Re)conciliation] won the 2014 Fernão Mendes Pinto Award. She developed her postdoctoral studies within the scope of the MEMOIRS- Children of Empires and European post memories project, funded by the European Research Council, (n.º 648624). In 2022, she won the pedagogical innovation prize of the University of Porto with the project expo#HCriM – Visiting stories of crime and punishment (FDUP). She collaborates in MAPS (FCT – PTDC/LLTOUT/7036/2020) and in TRAMES – (Erasmus +; 2021-1-FR01-KA210-ADU-000034092) projects at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in the research line Europe and the Global South: heritages and dialogues. She is a researcher in the criminology research line at the Center for Legal, Economic, and Environmental Studies (CEJEA) of Lusíada University and a collaborating researcher at the Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Justiça (CIJ). Her most recent book Des-cobrir a Europa – filhos de Impérios e pós-memórias europeias (Uncovering Europe – children of empires and European post-memories) (2022) was written with Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, also available in French (Enfants d’empires coloniaux et postmémoires européennes).
Co-Principal Investigator
Maria Leonor Esteves is an associate professor at the Lusíada University of Porto, a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and a researcher at the Center for Legal, Economic, International and Environmental Studies (CEJEIA). She has a law degree and a master’s degree in legal-criminal sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and a doctorate in law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Santiago de Compostela. She was a substitute Criminal Investigation Judge in the district of Viseu, Portugal (1980-1985). She was a Visiting Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Macau (1991-1997) (2004-2006), at the Macau Judicial Training Center, at the Macau Higher School of the Security Forces (1991-1997). She was a member of the Portuguese delegation to the United Nations Special Commission in New York for the creation of the Permanent International Criminal Court (1997-2001). She was a legal advisor in the Office of the Secretary for Administration and Justice of the Government of the Macao SAR of China (2003-2006). She was a Council of Europe fellow at the University of Louvain-la Neuve Law School (1985). She was a researcher at the Law College, DePaul University in Chicago (1999-2001).
Co-Investigator
Pedro Sousa, PhD in Economics from ISEG, University of Lisbon, Portugal, currently serves as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto (FDUP), where he holds the position of Director of the School of Criminology. Pedro Sousa is an integrated member of the CIJ (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Justice) at FDUP. He has been the principal investigator or researcher in several projects (e.g., MiscRisk, Intimate Partner Violence Homicides, and Telecare Protection System Assessment). His current research focus spans a wide array of Criminology topics, including the costs of crime, deterrence, economic and financial crimes, corruption, tax crimes, organised crime, criminal network analysis, domestic violence, and intervention programs in crime and justice. Employing quantitative methods and mixed methodologies, Pedro contributes significantly to the field, presenting findings at conferences and publishing in peer-reviewed journals. His engagement in executive workshops, tailored for law enforcement officers with a primary focus on criminal network analysis, demonstrates his compromise with the practical application of scientific knowledge. At the international level, Pedro has served on the Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology and remains an active member of the society. He is a member of two scientific European Society of Criminology working groups: The European Working Group on Organizational Crime (EUROC) and The European Working Group on Organized Crime and Criminal Networks. He is also president of the Supervisory Board of the International Association of Portuguese Language Criminology (AICLP), of which he is a founding member.
Co-Investigator
Lieutenant-Colonel Joaquim José da Cunha Roberto has been working at the Military Historical Archive as Deputy Director since December 2012.
He has a degree in History, a postgraduate degree in Intangible Cultural Heritage and a master’s degree in Documentation and Information Sciences from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon.
Lecturer in the Department of Postgraduate Studies at the Military University Institute (IUM) 2017-2020.
He has published the books: “The Organization, Description and Availability of Information of the Military Forces in Macau” author 2011; “Great War, Portugal’s participation in the conflict” – In Memoriam, Loures in the Great War effort (1914-1918); author of chapter 2016.
“O Último Fuzilado” – The Battle of Lys, the Portuguese combatants; author of chapter 2018.
“Arnaldo Garcez: Photographer of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps” – Anais Leirienses; studies & documents; author of chapter 2019.
Colonial Overseas Territories (1961-1974). The Portuguese Way of Waging War, 2022.
He has published several articles on history and information sciences.
He has been invited to speak and has given several lectures in the field of military history and information sciences.
Co-Investigator
Ana Guerreiro has a Ph.D. in Criminology with a FCT Fellowship (Ref.ª SFRH/BD/143202/2019) at FDUP – Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, through the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Crime, Justice and Security (CJS). She is an Assistant Professor at UMaia – University of Maia and an Invited Assistant Professor at FDUP – School of Criminology, University of Porto. Ana had also collaborated with the UPM – Military Polytechnic Unit (school year 2021-2022). She is currently the Director of the Research Unit in Criminology and Behavioral Sciences of the UMaia (UICCC/UMaia), a Full Member at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon (CIEG-ISCSP, UL), and a Collaborator Researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Justice, University of Porto (CIJ, FDUP). Her main research areas are gender studies, female crime, gender violence, organized and violent crime, criminal networks, sentencing studies, and prevention policies. Ana is a member of the European Society of Criminology, the European Gender, Crime and Justice, the European Working group on Organizational Crime (EUROC), ESC Working Group on Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making, European Network on Gender and Violence and Portuguese Association of Criminology. She was Research Projects Manager at the School of Criminology of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (2018-2019) and Criminologist at UMAR (a Portuguese NGO), from 2014-2018. These activities brought her experience on several national and international projects. She also has several national and international publications in scientific journals, books and book chapters.
Co-Investigator
Professor of Criminology. PhD in Legal Sociology and Political Institutions, graduated in Law from the University of Zaragoza. His line of research is focused on Victimology, Criminology, Gender and Family Violence, Human Rights and Social Policies. He is the author of El maltrato familiar hacia las personas mayores. A socio-legal analysis. Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza (PUZ), Zaragoza. (2012); “Towards an Inclusive Victimology and a New Understanding of Public Compassion to Victims: From and Beyond Christie’s Ideal Victim”, in Duggan, M. (ed.), Revisiting the ‘Ideal Victim’: Developments in Critical Victimology, Bristol: ed. Policy Press (2018). He has published numerous articles on victimology, vulnerable groups, the right to care, legal sociology and the relationship between law and film in scholarly works and scientific journals. He has participated in national and international congresses on victimology, criminology, legal sociology and human rights. Coordinator of the Victimology line at the Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Crime Justiça e Segurança (CJS). Effective member. Board of Directors. School of Criminology (FDUP) Porto (Portugal). Collaborator in the following research groups: Centro de Investigação Jurídica (CIJ, formerly CIJE) Collaborating researcher. FDUP. Porto (Portugal). Laboratory of Legal Sociology of the University of Zaragoza (LSJUZ). Collaborating researcher.
Research Grant Holder
Daniel is a research grant holder in the InJUSTiceWar Project, particularly engaged in the data collection at Arquivo Histórico Militar. He is a Master’s student in Criminal Sciences, Law School, University of Minho, Portugal. Master in Language Studies, School of Philosophy, Language and Human Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, 2023, Brazil. Post-graduate in Criminal Law and Criminology at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Policy, 2019, Brazil. Post-graduate in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, 2017, Brazil. Bachelor of Law, Institute of Legal Sciences, Universidade Paulista, 2013, Brazil. Bachelor of Arts: Portuguese-English at the School of Philosophy, Language and Human Sciences of the Federal University of São Paulo, 2023, Brazil. Member of the Semiology and Discourse Study Group at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. Member of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences. Criminal lawyer in Brazil (OAB336069SP) and Portugal (OA67567P).
Research Grant Holder
Filipa is a research grant holder in the InJUSTiceWar Project, particularly engaged in the data analysis, and in the organization of the project. She holds a degree in Criminology from the Faculty of Law, University of Porto, and is a student in the Master of Criminal Sciences in the Law School, University of Minho.
Thanks to her background, Filipa previously worked as a criminologist in a Harm Reduction project. She is also certified as an Instructor by the Institute of Employment and Professional Formation, and qualified to coach and effectively communicate criminological issues.
Filipa’s research currently focuses mainly on several topics related to Green Criminology and Victimology, namely the intricate dynamics of crimes against non-human animals.