Rita Faria

Rita Faria is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the School of Criminology - Faculty of Law of the University of Porto and Head of the only PhD program in Criminology in Portugal. She holds a PhD in Criminology, an MA in Sociology and a Degree in Law. She has been actively researching and publishing on matters such as environmental crimes and Green Criminology, as well as white-collar crime, financial, corporate and occupational crimes. She has experience supervising research about gender in criminology and victimology. She is Editor in Chief of “Criminology in Europe”, the European Society of Criminology newsletter, and a Board member of the same society. She is founder and member of the Working Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies (WG-QRME) - of the European Society of Criminology. In 2023, her research profile was highlighted by Centro Ciência Viva as one of the 101 female Portuguese scientists.

Publications

“Because I Was the One to Blame, Right?”: Secondary Victimisation of Migrant Women
“Because I Was the One to Blame, Right?”: Secondary Victimisation of Migrant Women
Nathália Castro da Silva, Rita Faria. © 2024. 25 pages.
Gender and migration status add to the risk of certain people being victims and have been considered, from an intersectionality perspective, added vulnerabilities to some social...
Breathing Under Water: Gendering the Violence Against Refugee Women
Breathing Under Water: Gendering the Violence Against Refugee Women
Gabriela Mesquita Borges, Rita Faria. © 2022. 19 pages.
The current chapter will allow a better understanding of refugee women's situation in global-forced migration. It also offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which...
Breathing Under Water: Gendering the Violence Against Refugee Women
Breathing Under Water: Gendering the Violence Against Refugee Women
Gabriela Mesquita Borges, Rita Faria. © 2020. 25 pages.
The current chapter will allow a better understanding of refugee women's situation in global-forced migration. It also offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which...