Key research themes
1. How do police practices and institutional cultures shape investigative approaches and ethical challenges in European and Latin American policing contexts?
This theme investigates the variety of police interviewing techniques, organizational cultures, and ethical considerations within police forces across Europe and Latin America. It focuses on how practical tactics, institutional dynamics, and ethical frameworks influence criminal investigations and police-community relations.
2. What are the roles and perceptions of scientific and technological innovations in modern criminal investigations and forensic practices?
This theme explores how advances in forensic science, data technologies, and surveillance tools influence criminal investigations, police work, and justice outcomes. It addresses both the practical integration of technology in investigative processes as well as ethical and organizational challenges, including perceptions of these innovations among practitioners and their implications for evidence quality and police accountability.
3. How is detective and crime fiction literature narrated and theorized in Latin American and European contexts, particularly concerning the construction of crime, protagonists, and genre evolution?
This theme encompasses literary analysis and theoretical reflections on crime fiction in Latin America and Europe. It focuses on the transformative roles of protagonists, metaliterary critiques, historical contextualization, and narrative strategies—especially regarding the evolution from traditional detective novels to contemporary neo-noir and picaresque hybrids important in shaping cultural understandings of crime narratives.