CRISTINA FERNANDEZ BESSA

Adjunct part-time

Knowledge area: Dret Penal

Research group: Observatori del Sistema Penal i els Drets Humans

Contact Information
Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Science, and Public International Law and International Relations

crisferbes(a)gmail.com

Teaching

Police Law (Degree in Criminology)

Organized Crime and terrorism (Degree in Criminology)

Criminal Policy (Degree in Criminology)

Sociology of Law (Degree in Criminology)

My profile

Cristina Fernández Bessa és doctora en dret i ciència política, investigadora postdoctoral al grup ECRIM (Criminología, Psicología jurídica y Justicia penal en el siglo XXI) de la Universitat de ... + info

Academic training

Licenciada en Derecho

Master Sistema Penal y Problemas sociales

Diploma in International Critical Criminology

Doctora en Dret i Ciència Política. Especialitat en Criminologia i Sociologia jurídicopenal

Research interests

Gestió de la seguretat en l'espai urbà

Control de la immigració: detenció, internament i expulsió

Human Rights and diversity

Relevant publications

Sander, G.; Scandurra, A.; Kamenska, A.; MacNamara, C.; Kalpaki, C.; Fernandez Bessa, C.; Nicolás Laso, G. Parisi, G.; Varley, L.; Wolny, M.; Moudatsou, M.; Pontes, N.H.; Mannix-McNamara, P.; Libianchi, S.; Antypas, T. Overview of harm reduction in prisons in seven European countries. In Harm Reduction Journal. Volume 13. Number 28. 2016 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-016-0118-x

Fernández Bessa, Cristina; Brandariz García, José Ángel. Transformaciones de la penalidad migratoria en el contexto de la crisis económica: El giro gerencial del dispositivo de deportación. In InDret. Revista para el Análisis del Derecho. Number 4/2016. 2016 . Institutional Repository

Martínez, L.M; Biglia, B.; Luxán, M.; Fernández, C.; Azpiazu, J.; Bonet, J. Experiencias de investigación feminista: propuestas y reflexiones metodológicas. In Athenea Digital: Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social. Volume 14. Number 4. 2014 . https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1513

Brandariz Garcia, J.A; Fernández Bessa, C. The Managerial turn: the transformation of Spanish migration control policies since the onset of the economic crisis. In HOWARD JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. Volume 56. Number 2. 2017 . https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12201

Brandariz García, J.A. Fernández Bessa, C. 'Perfiles' de deportabilidad: el sesgo del sistema de control migratorio desde la perspectiva de la nacionalidad. In Estudios Penales y Criminológicos. Volume 37(2017). 2017 . http://www.usc.es/revistas/index.php/epc/article/view/3850

Participations in Congresses

Fernández Bessa, C. 'Profiles' of Deportability in Spain: Analyzing the policies of migration control from a feminist perspective. 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. New Orleans. UNITED STATES. 2016

Brandariz García, J.A.; Fernandez Bessa, C. ¿Hacia un horizonte de eficiencia? La reciente evolución de las políticas de control migratorio. XI Congreso Español de Criminología. Abriendo vías a la reinserción. Barcelona. SPAIN. 2016

Fernández-Bessa, C. Deportation and detention of migrants in Spain. Towards a new rationality of migration control policies in times of economic crisis?. 15th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Criminology as unitas multiplex:Theoretical, epistemological and methodological developments. Porto. PORTUGAL. 2015

Fernández Bessa, C-. Migrant women targeted by bordered penality in Spain. Migration enforcement, crime control and the gender-based differential use of public space. Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, "Walls, Borders, and Bridges: Law and Society in an Inter -Connected World". Ciudad de México. MEXICO. 2017

Fernández Bessa, C. The gender of (in)mobility. Crimmigration and migrant women in Spain. 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Challenging 'Crime' and 'Crime Control' in Contemporary Europe. Cardiff. WALES. 2017

Projects

The changing landscape of European Liberty and security (CHALLENGE) . 2004 - 2009 . Ref.CIT1-CT-2004-506255 . Unió Europea . PI: Jose Ignacio Rivera Beiras

IRIS - Intervention sur les violences envers les femmes: recherche et mise en service des guichets spécialisés . 2010 - 2011 . Comisión Europea . PI: Bodelón, E.

Improving Prison Conditions by Strengthening Infectious Disease Monitoring . 2014 - 2016 . Ref.JUST/2013-JPEN/AG/4545 . Comissió Europea . PI: Joan Anton Mellon

Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies (IRISS) . 2012 - 2015 . Ref.290492 . Unió Europea . PI: Gemma Galdon Clavell

Adressing Sexual Violence Against Refugee Women (ASVAW) . 2017 - 2018 . Ref.JUST/2015/RDAP/AG/VICT/93 . Comissió Europea . PI: Encarna Bodelon