The Special Vulnerable Victims Observatory’s purpose is to keep track of portuguese law and its enforcement by portuguese courts concerning the protection of specially vulnerable victims (namely children, women, elderly people and people in institutional care) facing violent behaviours. It also intends to evaluate its compliance with the European Union Law.
Team
Coordination
- Conceição Ferreira da Cunha - Associated Professor, UCP-Porto
- Paula Ribeiro Faria - Associated Professor, UCP-Porto
Collaborators
- Elisabete Ferreira - Assistant Professor, UCP-Porto
- José Miguel Fernandes - Lawyer, HandsUp Researcher, PhD Student, UCP-Porto
- Cristina Augusto Teixeira Cardoso - Judge in Tribunal de Execução de Penas, Doctorate, UCP-Porto | Thesis teme: "Domestic violence in the marital aspect or similar."
- Luísa Ramos Naia - Researcher and PhD student, UCP-Porto | Thesis theme: "Free development of the adolescents in the sexual sphere - critical reflection."
- Mariana Vilas Boas - Researcher and PhD student, UCP-Porto | Thesis theme: “The homicide of the perpetrator of domestic abuse – which is the appropriate criminal framework?”
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