PhD Cristina Fernández Bessa  

Investigadora contratada no programa Ramón y Cajal (PR-RC)

Research  Research group Criminología, Psicología Jurídica y Justicia Penal en el siglo XXI
Research lines Criminology, Migration control, Policing, Prisons and Human rights
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Orcid id0000-0003-0260-9015 ResearcherIDABF-4320-2020 Scopus57195598277

Teaching

Subjects taught

This section shows the teaching given in degrees, masters and other officers studies in last 6 years.

Subject and involved studies Distance hours Total hours
Criminology 0 75
Master's Dissertation 0 9
Subject and involved studies Distance hours Total hours
Criminology
Degree in Law
0 65
Final Year Dissertation
Concurrent Programme of Studies for Degree in Business Management and Administration and Degree in Law
Degree in Law
0 0
Master's Dissertation
Master in Social Policies and Community Intervention
0 10
Migration Policies and Migration Law
Master in Social Policies and Community Intervention
0 5
Subject and involved studies Distance hours Total hours
Criminology
Degree in Law
0 64
Migration Policies and Migration Law
Master in Social Policies and Community Intervention
0 15
Subject and involved studies Distance hours Total hours
Criminology
Degree in Law
0 66
Migration Policies and Migration Law
Master in Social Policies and Community Intervention
0 14
Subject and involved studies Distance hours Total hours
Criminology
Degree in Law
0 47
Migration Policies and Migration Law
Master in Social Policies and Community Intervention
11 33

Defined tutoring by teacher for 2024/2025 academic course.

Faculty of Law

Quarter Day Site
1st quarter Wednesday
15:30 a 17:30
Área de Dereito Penal
1st quarter Thursday
10:00 a 11:00
Área de Dereito Penal

EOG works and final master thesis directed

Directed or codirected by current teacher since 2013 year.

Case 1. Breogán Case
Case 2. War and migratory movements
Case 2: Legal advisory mandate from lawyer and public notary
Case 3. Rentals
Case 3. Rentals
Case 4. Sea industries Ltd
Analysis of the Impact of Spanish Temporary Protection Programs for Human Rights Defenders: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Proposed Improvements.
Between waiting and hope. Temporality and uncertainty in migration processes, and its impact on the lives of migrants
Solidary and Collective Practices of Resistance- How civil society organizations challenge the migration system in the city of Iquique, Chile

Research results

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EFICACIA NORMATIVA Y GOBIERNO DE LA CONVIVENCIA EN LAS CIUDADES MEDIAS. (Proxecto Excelencia 2024)

Funding entity Consellería de Educación, Ciencia, Universidades e Formación Profesional
Main researches Cristina Fernández Bessa
Type Proyecto Programas Autonomicos
Dates From 01/01/2024 to 20/11/2027

Transformación de la Seguridad y la convivencia en las ciudades Medias

Funding entity Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Main researches Cristina Fernández Bessa (IP1) / Cristina Sobrino Garcés
Type Proyecto Programas Nacionales
Dates From 01/09/2024 to 31/08/2027

AXUDAS PARA A CONSOLIDACIÓN E ESTRUCTURACIÓN DE UNIDADES DE INVESTIGACIÓN COMPETITIVAS, GRC 2023

Funding entity CONSELLERIA DE EDUCACIÓN, UNIVERSIDADE E FORMACIÓN PROFESIONAL
Main researches FARALDO CABANA, PATRICIA
Type Proyecto Programas Autonomicos
Dates From 01/01/2023 to 09/11/2026

RITHMS: Research, Intelligence and Technology for Heritage and Market Security

Funding entity financiado por la Comisión Europea en el marco del Call HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01-08
Main researches Arianna Traviglia
Type Proyecto UE
Dates From 01/09/2022 to 31/12/2025

La responsabilidad de la inteligencia artificial: un desafío para las ciencias penales

Funding entity Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Main researches Patricia Faraldo Cabana/ Jose Ángel Brandariz García
Type Proyecto Programas Nacionales
Dates From 01/09/2021 to 31/08/2024

Red Activismos Migrantes. Regímenes fronterizos y derechos de movilidad

Funding entity Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Main researches Ana López Sala
Type Proyecto Programas Nacionales
Dates From 01/01/2020 to 31/12/2021

Divulgació de les accions de garantia dels drets humans de la ond

Funding entity Ajuntament de Barcelona
Main researches Cristina Fernández Bessa
Type Contrato
Dates From 13/10/2020 to 17/01/2021

Ayuda para la consolidación y estructuración de unidades de investigación competitivas del Sistema universitario de Galicia, modalidad de grupos de referencia competitiva (ED431C 2019/18)

Funding entity Xunta de Galicia
Main researches Patricia Faraldo Cabana
Type Proyecto Programas Autonomicos
Dates From 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2022

Política criminal y reforma penal en una sociedad en transformación

Funding entity Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
Main researches Patricia Faraldo Cabana y José Ángel Brandariz García
Type Proyecto Programas Nacionales
Dates From 01/01/2018 to 31/12/2020

Trust and Social Rehabilitation in Action

Funding entity Union Europea
Main researches José Ángel Brandariz García
Type Proyecto UE
Dates From 08/10/2018 to 07/10/2020

Cost Action Police Stops

Funding entity COMISIÓN EUROPEA
Type Proyecto UE
Dates From 01/09/2018 to 30/08/2020

Diseño y redacción del plan para el aumento de medidas para la promoción de los usos ciudadanos en el espacio público.

Funding entity Ajuntament de Barcelona
Main researches Cristina Fernández Bessa
Type Contrato
Dates From 01/03/2018 to 31/12/2018

Mutual Trust and Social Rehabilitation into Practice - RePerS

Funding entity COMISIÓN EUROPEA
Main researches Patricia Faraldo Cabana
Type Proyecto UE
Dates From 01/12/2017 to 30/11/2019

Coronavirus and Immigration Detention in Europe: The Short Summer of Abolitionism?

Authors BRANDARIZ GARCÍA, J.A., FERNÁNDEZ BESSA, C.
Journal Social Sciences Vol. 10 Num. 6 (pages 1 to 17)
DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10060226

Border Struggles, Political Unity, and the Transformative Power of the Local: US Sanctuary Cities and Spain's Cities of Refuge.

Authors Nancy A. Wonders, Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Journal International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Vol. 10 Num. 3 (pages 1 to 15)

A Changing and Multi-scalar EU Borderscape: The Expansion of Asylum and the Normalisation of the Deportation of EU and EFTA Citizens

Authors José Ángel Brandariz García, Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Journal International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Vol. 9 Num. 3 (pages 21 to 33)
DOI https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v9i3.1587

Current debates on immigration, crime, and penality. An introduction.

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa, José Ángel Brandariz García, Elisa García España
Journal Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica (REIC) Vol. 18 (pages 1 to 16)

The Crimmigration Turn of Spanish Migration Control Policies.

Authors José Ángel Brandariz García, Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Journal Justice, Power and Resistance Vol. 4 Num. 1 (pages 20 to 37)

El giro preventivo de lo policial. Presentación

Authors Sergio García García, Cristina Fernández-Bessa, Ignacio Mendiola Gonzalo
Journal Crítica penal y poder Vol. 19 (pages 1 to 19)

A theoretical typology of border activism: From the streets to the Council

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Journal THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY Vol. 23 Num. 2 (pages 156 to 174)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480619827522

¿Fracaso del reconocimiento mutuo de resoluciones de libertad vigilada en España? Una reflexión sobre la situación de los condenados extranjeros de nacionalidad comunitaria

Authors Patricia Faraldo-Cabana, Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Journal New Journal of European Criminal Law Vol. 47 (pages 151 to 175)

La brecha de género en el dispositivo de deportación en España

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Journal Revista Cidob d'Afers Internacionals Vol. 122 (pages 85 to 109)

Enfoque criminológico de las migraciones, de Elisa García España, Síntesis, 2018

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Journal Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica (REIC) Vol. 17 (pages 1 to 7)

Criminology, the immigraton crisis and the `recently acknowledged¿ dimensions of human mobility

Authors José Ángel Brandariz García, Cristina Fernández Bessa
Journal Criminology in Europe Vol. 17 Num. 1 (pages 8 to 10)

Deu anys de civisme ¿a toc d¿ordenança¿: estudi sobre l¿aplicació de l¿ordenança de convivència a l¿espai públic de Barcelona

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa, Andrés Di Masso Tarditti
Journal Barcelona Societat. Revista de coneixement, polítiques i anàlisi social Vol. 22 (pages 27 to 50)

The Managerial Turn: The Transformation of Spanish Migration Control Policies since the Onset of the Economic Crisis

Authors José Ángel Brandariz García, Cristina Fernández Bessa
Journal The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice Vol. 56 Num. 2 (pages 198 to 219)

"Perfiles" de deportabilidad: El sesgo del sistema de control migratorio desde la perspectiva de la nacionalidad

Authors José Ángel Brandariz García, Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Journal ESTUDIOS PENALES Y CRIMINOLOGICOS Vol. 37 (pages 307 to 347)
DOI https://doi.org/10.15304/epc.37.3850

Transformaciones de la penalidad migratoria en el contexto de la crisis económica: El giro gerencial del dispositivo de deportación

Authors Cristina Fernández Bessa, José Ángel Brandariz García
Journal INDRET. REVISTA PARA EL ANÁLISIS DEL DERECHO Num. 4 (pages 1 to 25)

Overview of harm reduction in prisons in seven European countries

Authors Sander, Gen, Scandurra, Alessio, Kamenska, Anhelita, MacNamara, Catherine, Kalpaki, Christina, Cristina Fernández-Bessa, Nicolas Laso, Gemma, Parisi, Grazia, Varley, Lorraine, Wolny, Marcin, Moudatsou, Maria, Pontes, Nuno Henrique, Mannix-McNamara, Patricia, Libianchi, Sandro, Antypas, Tzanetos
Journal HARM REDUCTION JOURNAL Vol. 28 (pages 1 to 13)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-016-0118-x

Los centros de internamiento de extranjeros (CIE). Una introducción desde las Ciencias Penales

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Publishing Iustel, Madrid (España)
ISBN 978-84-9890-400-0

Metropolice. Seguridad y policía en la ciudad neoliberal

Authors Sergio García García, Ignacio Mendiola Gonzalo, Débora Ávila, Laurent Bonelli, José Ángel Brandariz García, Cristina Fernández-Bessa, Manuel Maroto Calatayud
Publishing Traficantes de Sueños, (España)
ISBN 978-84-124538-0-5

Capítol 3. Espai i control

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa. Miquel Fernández González
Book Espai i... Reflexions sobre el paper de l'espai en les societats contemporànies
Publishing: Edicions Bellaterra.
ISBN: 978-84-19160-00-3
Pages From 89 to 130

Generations of Penality: On Prison, Immigration Detention and Their Intersections

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa. José Ángel Brandariz García
Book Incarceration and Generation
Vol. 1 Publishing: Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN: 978-3-030-82264-4
Pages From 45 to 74

¿Por qué debemos tener en cuenta el control migratorio para analizar el sistema penal?

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Book La sociología del control penal en España y Latinoamérica. Homenaje a Roberto Bergalli
Publishing: Bosch Editor.
ISBN: 978-84-123154-6-2
Pages From 379 to 400

Implementation Strategies: Distinctive Features, Advances and Shortcomings in the Application of Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA in Italy, Romania and Spain

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa. Valeria Ferraris. Alexandru Damian
Book The transfer of Prisoners in the European Union. Challenges & Prospects in the Implementation of Framework Decision 2008/9
Publishing: Eleven International Publishing/G. Giappichelli Editore.
ISBN: 978-94-6236-997-9
Pages From 121 to 140

Els usos ciutadans de l'espai públic. Una proposta per avançar cap a la pràctica del dret a la ciutat

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Book Del civisme al dret a la ciutat. Repolitització de la vida en comú a la ciutat del segle XXI
Publishing: Icaria.
ISBN: 978-84-9888-927-7
Pages From 243 to 258

¿Profiles¿ of Deportability: Analyzing Spanish Migration Control Policies from a Neocolonial Perspective

Authors Cristina Fernández Bessa. José Ángel Brandariz García
Book Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South
Publishing: Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN: 978-3-319-65020-3
Pages From 775 to 795

La crimigracion en el contexto español: El creciente protagonismo de lo punitivo en el control migratorio

Authors José Ángel Brandariz García. Cristina Fernández Bessa
Book Estados de contención, estados de detención: El control de la inmigración irregular en España
Publishing: Editorial Anthropos.
ISBN: 978-84-16421-71-8
Pages From 119 to 143

Governing migration through opacity. Obstruction and lack ofaccountability of immigration detention in Spain.
Law & Society Association Anual Meeting
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa, Ana Ballesteros Pena
Place San Juan (Puerto Rico)

The Detention Crisis: Versatility, Expendability and Plasticity in the Field of Immigration Confinement
Eurocrim2023 23rdAnnual Conference of the European SocietyofCriminology
International

Authors BRANDARIZ GARCÍA, J.A., Ana Ballesteros Pena, FERNÁNDEZ BESSA, C.
Place Florencia (Italia)

The rise and fall of crimmigration arrangements in Spain
Eurocrim2023 23rdAnnual Conference of the European SocietyofCriminology
International

Authors FERNÁNDEZ BESSA, C., Ana Ballesteros Pena, BRANDARIZ GARCÍA, J.A.
Place Florencia (Italia)

Immigration detention trends in Spain
Exploring incarceration trendas between Europe and Latin America
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization University of Turin
Place Turín (Italia)

Detention and deportation in Spain
Contested European deportation regimes
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa, José Ángel Brandariz García
Place Goteborg (Suecia)

Migraciones y criminología: criminología de la movilidad, crinmigración y penalidad fronteriza
Seminario Migraciones y sistema penal: Una aproximación
National

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Grupo de Estudios sobre los derechos de los Inmigrantes-Observatori de Dret Públic_IDP
Place Barcelona (España)

Border criminology as comparative criminology exercise. A dialogue between Italy and Spain
2022 Global Meeting on Law and Society program: Rage, Reckoning & Remedy
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa, Valeria Ferraris, José Ángel Brandariz García, Giulia Fabini
Organization Law and Society Association
Place Lisboa (Portugal)

Criminalization of activism and solidarity towards migrants in Europe
Annual conference. European Society of Criminology. Eurocrim 2022
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Place Málaga (España)

A crimmigration stronghold in southern Europe: Bordered penality in Spain
Annual conference. European Society of Criminology. Eurocrim 2022
International

Authors José Ángel Brandariz García, Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Place Málaga (España)

From Punitive Detention to Humanitarian Containment: The Unintended Reform of the Spanish Immigration Detention System
2022 Global Meeting on Law and Society program: Rage, Reckoning & Remedy
International

Authors Ana Ballesteros Pena, Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Law and Society Association
Place Lisboa (Portugal)

Discusión del libro: Los centros de internamiento de extranjeros (CIE). Una introducción desde las Ciencias Penales
XIII Congreso español de Criminología
National

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Place Sevilla (España)

Mobility restrictions linked to the COVID Pandemic and Immigration detention in Europe
Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Place Chicago (Estados Unidos)

Common trends in migration control and different hierarchies of otherness in Italy and Spain. Countries of origin, immigration detention and Southern European external borders
EUROCRIM 2021 E-conference. 21st Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology .Criminology in a time of pandemic
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization European Society of Criminology
Place Lausane (Suiza)

Who is the `Crimmigrant Other'? Southern European reflections on border control and immigration detention
Law and Society Annual Meeting program: "Rule and Resistance"
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa, Giulia Fabini
Organization Law and Society Association
Place Chicago (Estados Unidos)

The changing dynamics of immigration detention in Spain
Law and Society Annual Meeting program: "Rule and Resistance"
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Place Chicago (Estados Unidos)

Transparencia, Centros de Detención de Migrantes y Pandemia de COVID19
Congreso Internacional Transparencia, Prisión y Pandemia de COVID-19 en Perspectiva Comparada
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina y Carleton University, Canadá
Place Santa Fe (Argentina)

The role and purposes of immigration detention. Detention changes in Spain
Expanding the penal landscape: The immigration detention phenomena
Local

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Place Coruña, A (España)

Funciones del internamiento de extranjeros
Congreso Estado y migraciones en Chile. Pasado, presente y principales desafíos
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Place Valdivia (Chile)

Southernising' crimmigration debates: Southern European reflections on border control and immigration detention (2nd part)
Global Borderlands, Getting to the core of crimmigration
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Universiteit Leiden, CINETS
Place Leiden (Países Bajos)

The multi-faceted performances of deportation and immigration detention practices in southern Europe
19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization European Society of Criminology
Place Bucarest (Rumania)

Border Transformations From Below: Facing the Criminalization of Border Activism
75th Annual meeting American Society of Criminology- Criminology in the New Era: Confronting Injustice and Inequalities
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Place San Francisco (Estados Unidos)

Transferred or expelled? Foreign national prisoners in Spain
75th Annual meeting American Society of Criminology- Criminology in the New Era: Confronting Injustice and Inequalities
International

Authors Patricia Faraldo-Cabana, Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization American Society of Criminology
Place San Francisco (Estados Unidos)

Policing race, policing the protest: the politicisation of stop & search police practices in Spain
18th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa, Manuel Maroto Calatayud, José Ángel Brandariz García
Organization European Society of Criminology
Place Gante (Bélgica)

A theoretical typology of activism against border harms
47th European Group for the Study of deviance and social control Conference
National

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization European Group for the Study of deviance and social control
Place Barcelona (España)

La gestión de la diversidad urbana a través de la penalidad
IV Simposio de Investigación Criminológica. Retos de la seguridad ciudadana en el ámbito local
National

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica (SEIC)
Place Granada (España)

Towards a theoretical typology to explore border activism in border criminology studies
Immigration, crime and citizenship in troubled times
National

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Observatorio crimonológico del Sistema Penal ante la Inmigración
Place Málaga (España)

Saving lives is not a crime. Considerations about the criminalization of border activism in Spain
Sicurezza, ordine pubblico e criminalizzazione del dissenso e della solidarietà. Lezioni dalla Spagna e dall'Italia
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, Università di Bologna
Place Bolonia (Italia)

Convicted and imprisoned EU citizens in Spain. Unwanted citizens or unwanted prison systems?
Unwanted citizens of EU member states
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Edge Hill University
Place Liverpool (Reino Unido)

Género e controlo migratório
Seminário internacional Mobilidade, Pós-Colonialidade e Confinamento
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Universidade do Minho
Place Braga (Portugal)

El genero de la (in)movilidad: mujeres migrantes ante el control penal y el control migratorio
XII Jornadas de estudios penitenciarios. Personas migrantes en el laberinto penal y penitenciario
National

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Universidad Pública de Navarra
Place Pamplona/Iruña (España)

Migration control and the neo-Colonial Dimension of Contemporary Penality
18th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Crimes Against Humans and Crimes Against Humanity Implications for Modern Criminology
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization European Society of Criminology
Place Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Las consecuencias del encarcelamiento en las familias
Congreso Internacional de Derecho Penal, Criminología y Política Criminal. Fines y funciones de la pena
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Universidad Santo Tomás
Place Bogotá (Colombia)

Diversidades migrantes y crimigración
Migraciones y criminalización en America Latina
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Universidad Arturo Prat
Place Iquique (Chile)

Criminología, "crisis de los refugiados" y "nuevas" dimensiones de la movilidad humana
XII Congreso español de criminología. Consolidación profesional para el cambio social
National

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Sociedad Española de Criminología
Place Oviedo (España)

Wellcoming distant refugees, barring the arrival of neighboring migrants
EU at the crossroad of migration: critical reflections on te "refugee crisis" and new migration deals
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Utrecht University
Place Utrecht (Países Bajos)

Fronteres i estrangeria: la violència institucional contra les dones migrades
IV Seminari Feminista "Violència masclista institucional: quan són les institucions qui ens agredeix"
National

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization CUP-Crida per Girona
Place Girona (España)

La dimención de género de las fronteras desde la criminología
Law & Politics Lectures: Thinking Beyond Borders
International

Authors Cristina Fernández-Bessa
Organization Universidade LaSalle
Place Canoas (Brasil)

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