Andreia de Castro Rodrigues

Andreia de Castro Rodrigues
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Andreia de Castro Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor at ISPA – Instituto Universitário. She developed her post-doc research and her PhD in Psychology of Justice, respectively in the area of users’ perceptions and effectiveness of penal sanctions, and sentencing decision making. Her research interests are deviant behavior, criminal justice system, sentencing, penalties effectiveness and prison sentences in particular. She has several fieldwork experiences namely of community intervention, having worked with vulnerable groups. She has also participated in several funded scientific research projects, with many publications at national and international level. She is a member of the European Criminology Society, in three working groups: ‘ESC Working Group on Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making’, ‘Working Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies, and ‘ESC Working Group on Prison Life and the Effects of Imprisonment’.

Main 5 publications

Cunha, O., Pereira, B., Cruz, A. R., Gonçalves, R., & Castro Rodrigues, A. (2024). Intimate partner violence: Perceptions and attributions of male perpetrators. Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice24(3), 338-358. doi: 10.1080/24732850.2022.2133663
Andrade, J., Gonçalves, R. A., & Castro Rodrigues, A. (2024). Does time work its magic? The relationship between time in detention and risk of violence and aggression, Deviant Behavior. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2024.2328819
Sousa, M., Cunha, O., Abrunhosa Gonçalves, R., & Castro Rodrigues, A. de (2024). Male perpetrators of child sexual abuse: A comparison between individuals serving custodial and non-custodial sentences. Crime & Delinquency, 0(0). doi: 10.1177/00111287231226184
Castro Rodrigues, A., Cunha, O. S., de Oliveira, J. Q., Gonçalves, R. A., & Sacau-Fontenla, A. (2023). Words matter: Judges’ value judgments in sentence pronouncements remarks. Crime Law Soc Change. doi: 10.1007/s10611-023-10097-8
Castro Rodrigues, A., Andrade, J., Gonçalves, R. A., Cruz, A. R., & Cunha, O. (2022). In and out: Justice-involved women characterization and their perceptions about penal sanctions. Women and Criminal Justice. doi: 10.1080/08974454.2022.2126743