Alberto Pimentel

Integrated Researcher

Alberto Manuel Ferreira Pimentel was born in Porto on 16 September 1958. He has a degree in Psychology, a master's degree and a PhD in Criminology.
He has been active in the field of social reintegration and criminal prevention of young people and adults serving sentences in the community for over 35 years. He held management roles at the former Instituto de Reinserção Social, in the Direção-Geral de Reinserção e Serviços Prisionais, and in the former Serviço de Prevenção e Tratamento da Toxicodependência both under the Ministry of Justice, and the former under the Ministry of Health.
He has been a lecturer in higher education for 27 years, at the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde-Norte and at the Universidade da Maia, where he has taught subjects in the areas of rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders in justice contexts and victimology.
He was an expert for ACODESS - Association de Coopération pour le Dévelopment des Services de Santé - in the support plan carried out by the Council of Europe for the restructuring of various drug treatment institutions in the Estado Federal do Brasil, implemented, as a representative of the Ministry of Justice, the Comissões de Proteção de Crianças e Jovens in the Judicial District of Porto and represented the Ministry of Justice on the Board of Directors of Corpus Christi, a child support institution.
He was a founding member and director of the Associação para a Promoção da Saúde – Norte Vida, an institution for prevention, treatment and harm reduction in the area of drug addiction. 
 He has carried out relevant work and published several papers in the field of risk/needs assessment of offenders, criminal recidivism and sexual violence. Currently he is supervising the assessment of sex offenders and carries out the first structured programme aimed at sex offenders in the context of enforcement of sentences and measures in the community.


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