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Dr. Ester Massa is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Winchester, affiliated with the Faculty of Law, Crime and Justice. She holds a Law degree from the University of Bologna (2005) and a PhD in Criminology from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan (2011). Her research focuses on youth deviance, crime and migration, women and crime, and quantitative social research. She has conducted extensive self-report surveys on juvenile delinquency in Emilia-Romagna schools and comparative studies on migration and criminalization processes in Italy and the U.S.
Teaching Responsibilities: Criminal Justice and Punishment, Criminological Research, and undergraduate dissertation supervision. She has taught both national and international courses, including 'Crime, Punishment and Society' and contributed to the interuniversity Master's in Critical Criminology.
Research Interests: Criminal Justice systems, youth deviance, migration-crime nexus, gender and crime, particularly women’s treatment in penal systems. She supervises research students on topics like stigmatization, second-generation immigrants, and quantitative data analysis.
Professional Membership: Editorial roles for International Journal of Penology, Punishment & Society and European Journal of Policing Studies, and active participation in conferences globally (e.g., European Society of Criminology, American Society of Criminology).
