Ana Lopes Morais

Junior Researcher

Ana Lopes Morais has a degree in Psychology and a master's degree in Psychology of Justice from the Universidade do Minho (2010), having completed an MBA from Porto Business School (2015). She is currently working on her PhD in Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, centred on identifying and evaluating the bottlenecks of the Portuguese justice system in dealing with reports of domestic violence, with a fellowship granted by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

She has developed various research projects in the areas of hate crime, domestic violence risk assessment and the impact of imprisonment on the resocialisation of convicts. Her research interests lie in the areas of Psychology and Criminology, namely domestic violence, gender-based violence, the system of intervention and protection of minors, criminal policies and the evaluation and monitoring of the implementation of political-legal programmes in crime and family. Since 2021 she has been a member of the Monitoring Committee for the PhD in Criminology.


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