Luisa Saavedra, PhD in psychology, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Minho. She has taught and investigated issues concerning the intersection of gender with other social categories, since 1996. that conduct people to crime and social exclusion. Particularly, her research has taken for guiding principles the feminist perspective of intersectionality and critical criminology. More recently, she has been involved in teaching and researching in Criminal Psychology grounded in Critical criminology in connection with feminist perspective. Based on these supports she aims to comprehend how men and women offenders are constructed by criminal law and media (mentally ill, violent, perverse, and emotionally disturbed); the role of psychological discourse in criminal Law; the experiences of these perpetrators before and during incarceration, namely women and specially mothers; and public opinion about crime and sentences as well as stigmatized people and targeted by structural violence
Gender and Criminality
Prison and social exclusion
Social Exclusion and Violence
Selected publications
Saavedra, L. & Cameira, M. (in press). Deconstructing Idealized Motherhood: The Extreme Case of Neonaticidal Women. Feminist Criminology. DOI
Saavedra, L. & Oliveira, J. M. (2016). Transgressing Motherhood: Media Reports on Infanticide. Deviant Behavior. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2016.1197007 DOI
Saavedra, L., Cameira, M., Rebelo, S., Sebastião C. (2016). Gender Norms in Portuguese College Students' Judgments in Familial Homicides: Bad Men and Mad Women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. first published on May 8, 2015 as doi:10.1177/0886260515585542 DOI
Freitas, A. M., Inácio, A. R. & Saavedra, L. (2016). Motherhood in prison: reconciling the irreconcilable. The Prison Journal. doi: 10.1177/0032885516635129 DOI
Saavedra, L., Araújo, A. M., Oliveira, J. M., & Stephens, C. (2014). Looking through the glass walls: women engineers in Portugal. Women's Studies International Forum, 45, 27-33. DOI
Other publications
Saavedra, L. & Cameira, M. (in press). Deconstructing Idealized Motherhood: The Extreme Case of Neonaticidal Women. Feminist Criminology. DOI
Saavedra, L. & Oliveira, J. M. (2016). Transgressing Motherhood: Media Reports on Infanticide. Deviant Behavior. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2016.1197007 DOI
Saavedra, L., Cameira, M., Rebelo, S., Sebastião C. (2016). Gender Norms in Portuguese College Students' Judgments in Familial Homicides: Bad Men and Mad Women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. first published on May 8, 2015 as doi:10.1177/0886260515585542 DOI
Freitas, A. M., Inácio, A. R. & Saavedra, L. (2016). Motherhood in prison: reconciling the irreconcilable. The Prison Journal. doi: 10.1177/0032885516635129 DOI
Saavedra, L., Araújo, A. M., Oliveira, J. M., & Stephens, C. (2014). Looking through the glass walls: women engineers in Portugal. Women's Studies International Forum, 45, 27-33. DOI
2023/2024
Estágio em Psicologia da Justiça
Master
