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29th CJS Conference

"Administração da Justiça em África durante a Guerra colonial portuguesa: uma abordagem criminológica"

CJS, the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Crime, Justice and Security of the School of Criminology - Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, organizes the 29th CJS Conference, titled "Administration of Justice in Africa during the Portuguese colonial war: a criminological approach", featuring Pedro Sousa (Professor at FDUP and CJS Integrated Member) and Fátima Rodrigues (Professor at FDUP and CJS Collaborator Member). The conference will take place at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (Anf. 128) and via Zoom on November 22nd, 5.30pm (GMT), and attendance is free. Prof. Jorge Quintas (Assistant Professor at FDUP) will chair the session.

 

Pedro Sousa holds a PhD in Economics (ISEG, University of Lisbon). He is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (FDUP), where he is the Director of the School of Criminology, Researcher at the CJS and a collaborating member of the Centre for Legal Research (CIJ). He has been the principal or the co-principal investigator of several funded and not funded projects, some in a very close relationship with organisations from the Security System and the Justice System. Currently, he is developing research in Criminology, specifically on the following topics: costs of crime, deterrence, economic and financial crimes, corruption, tax crimes, organised crime, criminal network analysis, domestic violence, and intervention programs in crime and justice, primarily using quantitative methods but also mixed methodologies such as in sentencing studies and on the analyses of organised crime groups. The outcomes of this activity are presented and discussed at multiple conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. In the international context, he served the European Society of Criminology as a member of the Executive Board. He is a member of The American Society of Criminology (ASC) and the European Society of Criminology (ESC). He integrates two scientific ESC working groups: The European Working Group on Organizational Crime (EUROC) and The European Working Group on Organized Crime and Criminal Networks.

Fátima Rodrigues is assistant professor at the University Lusíada Norte and invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. Her thesis "Antigos Combatentes Africanos das Forças Armadas Portuguesas: a Guerra Colonial como Território de (Re)conciliação" won the 2014 Fernão Mendes Pinto Award. She developed her postdoctoral studies within the scope of the MEMOIRS- Children of Empires and European post memories project, funded by the European Research Council. In 2022, she won the pedagogical innovation prize of the University of Porto with the project expo#HCriM - Visiting stories of crime and punishment (FDUP). She is the principal investigator of the project inJUSTiceWar - Crime and justice administration in the Portuguese colonial war (1961- 1974): exploratory analysis of the criminal proceedings against combatants of the Portuguese Armed Forces in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau at the CJS. She collaborates in MAPS and in TRAMES projects at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in the research line Europe and the Global South: heritages and dialogues. She is a researcher in the criminology research line at the Center for Legal, Economic, and Environmental Studies (CEJEA) of Lusíada University. She is vice president of the COST Global Atrocity Justice Constellations Action. Her main research interests relate to colonial/liberation wars, memory and post-memory issues, colonization, decolonization and postcolonialism, and crimes committed in war contexts.