Dr Lucía Tiscornia
Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
Biography
Dr Lucía Tiscornia is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, and a Research Affiliate with the Transitional Justice and Violence Lab at the University of Notre Dame.
Her work explores the conditions under which police reform contributes to (or hinders) the respect of human rights in new democracies. She also conducts research on the determinants of organized criminal behavior. Within this line of research, she focuses on the role of the security apparatus in increasing or decreasing violent criminal responses, as well as other criminal behavior such as market capture. Her work has been published in the Journal of Peace Research, Sociological Methods & Research, and Studies in Comparative International Development, among others.