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Criminal and prison mediation

Analysis of the theoretical foundations and practical reality of mediation in criminal and penitentiary matters.

Criminal dangerousness, security measures and offender harmlessness

Critical analysis of the legislative model aimed at combating the dangerousness of the offender by means of security measures and innocuous strategies that are cumulative to punishment and that disregard the limits of the criminal law of guilt.

Criminal law and constitutional principles

Critical examination of the current state of Spanish criminal legislation in accordance with the constitutional principles and fundamental rights that limit the concept of Criminal Law.

Criminal mediation

Study and critical assessment from a multidisciplinary perspective of the introduction into the criminal justice system of alternative mechanisms for conflict resolution derived from restorative justice.

Culpability and criminal dangerousness

Critical analysis of current trends towards the consolidation of a criminal law of authorship in various areas of criminal policy and its tension with fundamental rights, with special attention to the relationship between criminology and criminal law, and the introduction of algorithms and artificial intelligence in criminal decision-making on individuals.

Legal and criminological study of offences relating to sexual freedom and sexual indemnity

Legal and criminological analysis of the problem, with a special focus on crimes of sexual assault and abuse, as well as crimes related to child pornography.

Penal reform and new political-criminal currents

Critical examination, based on various legislative models of comparative law, of the main features that characterise contemporary criminal policy in the light of the latest reforms and, in particular, of the so-called criminal law of the enemy and of public safety.

Prevention and treatment of sexual offending

Dogmatic and political-criminal study of crimes against sexual freedom: aggression and abuse, harassment, exhibitionism, provocation and offences related to prostitution and the exploitation and corruption of minors; analysis of mechanisms for the prevention and treatment of sexual offenders.