Carolina Villacampa

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Carolina Villacampa is full Professor of Criminal Law and Victimology at the University of Lleida (Spain), where she has been teaching since 2002, when she became a senior lecturer. She has been director of the Department of Public Law and secretary general of this academic institution. Currently she acts as director of the master's degree in criminal justice system, coordinates the doctoral programme on Law and Economics and the consolidated research group on Sustainable Society and Law (SIOUS) at the University of Lleida. Prof. Villacampa chairs the Law area of the Spanish State Agency of Research (AEI) from September 2022. She also acts as coordinator of the Victimology working group of the Spanish Society of Criminology. She obtained the Catalan Government ICREA Award in 2022 as recognition to her research activity, focused during the last decade on gender-based violence, human trafficking, legal policy on prostitution, online victimisation of minors and recognition of victim rights. She is one of the most outstanding specialists in criminal law of her generation in Spain, being the sixth most cited researcher in this country in the field of criminal law, procedural law and criminology according to Dialnet metrics. She has an H index 34 in Google Scholar. She is ranked 2,440 of the almost 12,000 most cited Spanish and foreign female researchers in Spain in the ranking compiled by the CSIC (The Spanish National Research Council) in February 2025 based on the aforementioned index. During thirteen years, she combined her teaching activity at different Spanish, South American and European Universities with her jurisdictional activity as a substitute Magistrate at the Provincial Criminal Court of Lleida. She has participated in 26 national and international research projects, having coordinated 14 of them. She has authored or co-authored more than 200 national and international scientific publications, both in Spanish and English, dealing with the general and special part of criminal law, as well as victimological and criminal policy issues. She has supervised 10 doctoral theses, 3 of which awarded, and currently supervises 5 more.