Department: Law and Political Science Department

Unit: Management and governance

Research group: VICRIM Empirical and Applied Victimology

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Email: alindeg@uoc.edu

Antonia Linde Garcia has a PhD in Criminology from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and has collaborated with the same institution since 2008 as a researcher. She has been teaching Criminology at the UOC since 2010 and is currently the director of its bachelor's degree in Criminology. She is the Spanish correspondent for the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics. Her areas of interest and lines of research involve crime trends, statistics on crime rates, comparative criminology and victimization surveys. Since 2010, she has been the Spanish correspondent for the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics, with the mission of compiling data on criminality in Spain. Since 2017, she has been a member of the Criminal Justice System (VICRIM) research group (officially recognized as a consolidated research group (GRC) by Government of Catalonia) led by Josep M. Tamarit Sumalla. Since 2018, she has been a partner in the project on criminology and crime policy funded by Spain's Ministry of Science and Innovation and led by Fernando Miró Llinares, of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, with the specific mission of publishing an analysis on the state of crime statistics in Spain.   More recently, in 2019, she took part in a research project funded by the European Commission on compensation for the victims of sexual violence, led by Josep M. Tamarit Sumalla, with the specific mission of analysing the data on sexual violence in Europe.