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Dr Paula Rosa

Lecturer

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Paula Rosa joined 51 in 2023. She is a Lecturer in Criminology and a qualified lawyer in Brazil, where she worked as a criminal defence lawyer in high profile cases. Her research has been mainly on prison policies, having completed a PhD in prison policies and the Inter-American System of Human Rights, at the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (USP). She has published papers and book chapters on white collar crimes, gender-based violence, torture, drugs, prisons, international criminal law and international human rights law. She also does voluntary work with organisations that seek to improve the criminal justice system.

Paula Rosa

Prisons; prison policies; prisoners' families; punishment; prisons/punishment and international human rights law; gender-based violence.

  • Law PhD September 01 2021
  • Law MSc May 10 2017
  • Lecturer Association of Teachers & Lecturers (ATL) 2023


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