Researchers

Research Topics 

• Criminal responsibility
• Diversion
• Alternatives to incarceration
• Service trajectories

Research Topics

• Interactions between individuals with mental-health issues and the justice system
• Dynamic modelling of delinquency

• Relational and delinquency mechanisms
• Criminal rationality, criminal performance, and deterrent mechanisms

Research Topics

• Severe and persistent mental issues
• Violent behaviour

• Psychopathy

• Intellectual disability

Research Topics

• Evaluation and development of police practices 
• Identification of challenges for marginalized populations 

• Program evaluation
• Local safety audits

Research Topics

• Violence by women

  Assessing the risk of violence

  Violence directed to self and others

  Quality of expert forensic reports

Research Topics

Mental health, justice and society

Mental health policies

Courts, vulnerability and social inequality

Professional practices in judicial, correctional and institutional settings

Research Topics

• Structured risk and need assessment
• Assessment of protective factors
• Predation and psychopathy

• Development of autonomous virtual agents (AVA) to help in evaluation training

Research Topics

• Trajectories towards violent and sexual offences

• Risk factors and intervention strategies

• Sexual homicide

• Perpetrators of sexual assault

Research Topics

• Juvenile delinquency

• Adolescent sexual abuse perpetrators

• Delinquency and mental disorders

• Use of psychotropic medication in institutions

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• Nursing care in forensic (medico-legal) settings

  Nursing practice with the homeless (outreach practice)

Research Topics

• Psychophysiology, ergonomics

• Forensic psychology

• Virtual reality

• Immersion and presence

Research Topics

• Sexual assault

• Sexual homicide

• Domestic violence

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• Sexual delinquency 

• Normative and non-normative sexuality 

• Sexology

Research Topics

• Sexual offending in minors and adults

• Parents of young people who have committed sexual abuse

• Victimization (forms and accumulation)

• Development of psychometric tools: denial, sexual deviance, evaluating the reliability of different types of intervention

Research Topics

Sexual offences

Domestic violence

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