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Criminal and prison mediation

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

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.

Cybercriminality

The context resulting from the rise of information technologies has led to the emergence of new forms of crime related to cybercrime. This being the case, thought must be given to adapting the response of criminal law to this new criminological phenomenon.

Expansion of criminalisation of preparatory acts

Analysis of the legislative tendency to advance the barrier of criminal intervention through the criminalisation of preparatory acts and the problems that this entails in dogmatic, political-criminal and constitutional terms (freedom of expression and the right of assembly and demonstration, criminal law of authorship).

Legal consequences of the offence, exemption and extinction of criminal liability

The projection of penal guarantees in the construction of criminal responsibility has long permeated the central categories of crime. But these guarantees must also apply to the legal consequences of crime, to criminal enforcement and to institutions based on the criteria of the "necessity of punishment".

Political-criminal assessment of modern penal reforms

General study of the political-criminal lines followed by the Spanish criminal legislator in the successive criminal reforms since the entry into force of the Criminal Code in 1995.

Protection of women victims of violence just for being women

Protection of women victims of violence just for being women, both in Spain and in Europe, through the so-called European Protection Order (EPO).