Grup de Recerca consolidat
Objectives:
- to analyze the treatments that the criminal system gives to social problems
- to contribute in the promotion of the culture of human rights.
Línies de recerca:
- deprivation of liberty and human rights;
- analysis of the Catalan, Spanish and European penitentiary systems;
- minors and criminal system;
- types of intervention on minors in conflict with Criminal Law;
- feminist analysis of the criminal system;
- the problematic of sex workers in the city of Barcelona;
- types of public policies implemented regarding prostitution;
- analysis of the main problems and possibilities for the social and work insertion of those women in the catalan society;
- justice administration;
- analysis of the “Justice of Proximity” as a system to be implemented as a justice closer to citizens;
- study of “Restorative Justice” in European countries;
- migrations, Law and Systems of Control. Analysis of the situation of migrants in Catalunya;
- politics and democratic values: empirical analysis of political culture and democratic values in contemporaneous societies.
Members (june 2007):
Iñaki Rivera Beiras,
Professor de la Universitat de Barcelona
Joan Antón Mellón,
Professor de la Universitat de Barcelona
Mónica Aranda Ocaña,
Investigadora del OSPDH de la Universitat de Barcelona
Francisca Cano López,
Investigadora de l’OSPDH de la Universitat de Barcelona
Cristina Fernández Bessa,
Investigadora de l’OSPDH de la Universitat de Barcelona



