Andreia de Castro Rodrigues

Andreia de Castro Rodrigues completed her post-doc studies (funded by FCT) in Psychology of Justice in the University of Minho in 2019, being an Assistant Professor at Ispa since then, where she is the Director of the master’s in forensic psychology, and a Researcher at William James Center of Research. At Ispa, she is also a member of the Ethics Committee and of the Pedagogical Council. Until recently, she was the Principal Investigator of the project ‘Women Behind Bars’ (SR23-00172), funded by La Caixa Foundation. Supervises 4 PhD projects (2 funded by FCT). She has a PhD in Justice Psychology (funded by FCT), a master’s in psychology of Deviant Behavior (Crime, violence and victims) and a degree in Psychology, with pre-specialization in Deviant Behavior. She has published 72 papers in peer-review journals, 2 books and 9 chapters. She participated in 5 funded projects as a researcher. She has organized 7 scientific events. She has participated in scientific events with 15 presentations by invitation, 73 oral presentations, and 13 posters. She has professional experience working with vulnerable people in community and institutional settings. She is a member of the European Criminology Society, in four working groups: ‘ESC Working Group on Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making’, ‘Working Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies, ‘ESC Working Group on Prison Life and the Effects of Imprisonment’, and ‘ESC Gender, Crime and Justice Working Group’. Her research lines focus on the intersection between gender and crime, and the overlap between victimization and crime perpetration; the intervention with individuals who have committed crimes, particularly vulnerable groups within this population (such as women, individuals who have committed sexual offenses, and people in pretrial detention); and the penal responses to these groups; as well as the attitudes of key figures within the criminal justice system.