Comments: Ana Luísa Rodrigues, Journalist
 

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The EEA Grants Project “Evaluative Study on the Impact of Measures Applied to Offenders (IMAPA)” promotes this activity aimed at judges, prosecutors, police officers, technicians from the Directorate General for Reintegration and Prison Services, lawyers and other legal experts, psychologists, professionals from civil society organisations and students, with the aim of contributing to broadening the discussion on policies to combat domestic violence.

Speakers:
Isabel Dias, Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto
Rui do Carmo, Coordinator of the Retrospective Analysis of Homicide in Domestic Violence Team

This Project, from the EEA Grants Programme Conciliation and Gender Equality, operated by CIG, is developed by the Centre for Social Studies from the University of Coimbra, through its Permanent Observatory of Justice, and in partnership with the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, the Attorney General's Office, the Superior Council of Magistracy, the Public Security Police and the General Directorate of Reintegration and Prison Services and aims to diagnose the impact of measures applied to aggressors, reflect on the national reality in the light of solutions adopted by other EU countries and produce recommendations for the promotion of public policies for the prevention of domestic violence and gender violence.

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Bio notes

Isabel Dias: University of Porto - Sociology Department and researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the same Faculty. Her research activity has focused on the problem of domestic and gender violence, but she has also developed intense research activity in the fields of family, ageing, elder abuse, women's work and occupational health. She has authored books, book chapters and several scientific articles on domestic violence, gender and ageing, published in national and foreign journals. She has coordinated and participated in several national and international research projects.

Rui do Carmo: Coordinator of the Domestic Violence Homicide Retrospective Analysis Team and retired public prosecutor. He has worked as a magistrate in the Public Prosecutor's Office, particularly in the areas of criminal law and family and minors, as well as in the Coimbra District Attorney's Office and he was a member of the High Council of the Public Prosecutor's Office (1989-1992). At the Centre for Judicial Studies, he was a lecturer in the area of criminal law and criminal procedure (1997-2001) and Deputy Director (2001-2004 and 2010-2011). He coordinated the Multidisciplinary Technical Commission for the Improvement of Prevention and Fight against Domestic Violence, created by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 52/2019. He has collaborated, as a consultant, in several projects of the Permanent Observatory of Justice of the Centre for Social Studies and has integrated missions of the Council of Europe to support the organisation of training of magistrates in Armenia, Bulgaria and Romania. He has published extensively in the areas of criminal law and criminal procedure, family and children's law, communication in justice and training of magistrates.

Ana Luísa Rodrigues: Journalist. Master in Social Sciences by the ICS of the University of Lisbon. She has a degree in Communication Sciences from the New University of Lisbon. She has worked for RTP since 1997. She is the author of a series of seven reports entitled "Direito à Pele", which tell stories of violence against women and girls, marking the 25th of November, day for the elimination of violence against women. This series of reports was awarded an Honourable Mention in the "Hearts with a Crown" Journalism Prize.

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