Group mebers

Josep Cid

Josep Cid is a professor of criminal law and criminology and coordinator of the criminology degree at the UAB. His research is focused on criminology and penology. He directs the research group on “Desistance from Crime and Reintegration Policies” which in recent years has focused its research on the field of desistance from crime, both in adult and juvenile populations, initiating research in Spain on these issues. He is currently researching the role of supervisors in desistance from delinquency. In 2021 he received the National Criminology Award from the Spanish Society of Criminological Research.

Anna Meléndez

Anna Meléndez holds a PhD in public law and legal-political philosophy with an international mention in the field of restorative justice and desistance. She is currently a lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and member of the research group on desistance from crime and reintegration policies. Her main lines of research are desistance and restorative justice, and she is currently extending her research to other areas. She is also deputy coordinator of the Criminology degree at the UAB.

Carmen Navarro

Carmen Navarro is associate professor in Procedural Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is also responsible of equality policies at the Faculty of Law at the UAB. She received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. She is the author of numerous articles published in specialised journals, as well as collaborations in collective works. She is also the author of several monographs. In 2018 she published “El encarcelamiento femenino. Especial consideración a las madres privadas de libertad”, published by Atelier.

Jenny Cubells

Jenny Cubells is an associate professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the UAB. She teaches on the Psychology and Criminology degrees at the UAB and some official master’s degrees at the same university. She coordinates the research group “Social Studies of Gender, Power and Subjectivity” (GIPIS) and focuses her research on male violence, gender violence and the legal-penal system, love and violence, female delinquency, alternative masculinities, performative methodologies, and discourse analysis. She is currently researching the role of supervisors in deterring delinquency and the situation of incarcerated women in Catalonia.

Leonor M. Cantera

Dra. Leonor M. Cantera Espinosa is a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Puerto Rico. She holds a PhD in Social Psychology with an Extraordinary Award from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Professor of Social Psychology at the UAB and Coordinator of the research group on domestic violence and in work -VIPAT. Co-creator, co-coordinator, and promoter of the first Master on Gender Violence (Domestic Violence) throughout the Spanish state. Her areas of interest are violence, bullying, mobbing, gender, work, community. Author and co-author of several publications on these topics.

Constanza Busquets

Constanza Busquets holds a degree in psychology and a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She complemented her studies with a master’s degree in criminology and penal execution and is currently studying for a PhD in law on the subject of treatment programmes in prison. She is part of the research group on “Criminal desistance and reintegration policies” at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She worked as a rehabilitation psychologist in various penal centres in Chile, her country of origin, where she was head of the third sector programme in penal centres as an official of the Gendarmería.

Esther De la Encarnación

Esther De la Encarnación is a part-time lecturer of the criminology degree at the UAB since 2018. Also, since 2018, she is a predoctoral researcher in the research group “Desistance from Crime and Reintegration Policies” at the same university. In this group, she has participated in research projects on desistance from crime and social reintegration of people leaving prison as an auxiliary research support technician since 2016. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on the role of post-penitentiary accompaniment in the social reintegration process of people released from prison.

Héctor Sánchez

Héctor Sánchez is graduated in Criminology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2017. It also has two master’s degrees: Analysis and prevention of crime by the Miguel Hern University (UMH) and Business Intelligence and Big Data by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He is currently studying his PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona under the direction of Dr. Josep Cid, with a line of research related to the Ecological Theories of Crime. The thesis combines it with his work as a Senior Data Analyst at the Kantar consultancy.

Albert Pedrosa

Albert Pedrosa holds a PhD in Law (UAB) and is currently working in UdG as a postdoctoral researcher (Juan de la Cierva Programme). From 2016 to 2022 he was linked to the UAB Criminology Degree, and as a researcher he is still linked to the research group on “Desistance from Crime and Reintegration Policies”. His research has focused on aspects related to incarceration, the prison adaptation process, and the research about families of incarcerated people. In 2018 he was awarded the SEIC prize for the promotion of young researchers by the Spanish Society of Criminological Research, for his research on the causes of prison progression.

Joel Martí

Joel Martí holds a PhD in Sociology and is associate professor at the UAB. He specialises in mixed methods research, network analysis and participatory methodologies. The research topics in which he has worked (both basic and applied research) include the fields of community development and citizen participation, employment and labour relations, prison and social reintegration, migration and public health.

Judit Xufré

Judit Xufré holds a degree in Law and Criminology and has completed a master’s degree in access to the advocacy. Her training has led her to focus on the field of Criminal and Penitentiary Law. She is a member of a law firm in Terrassa and of the research group of the Autonomous University of Barcelona “Desistance from Crime and Reintegration Policies”. She is currently involved in research on the role of the supervisor in the desistance from crime.