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Rita Alexandra Brilha Ribeiro has a PhD in Forensic Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra, with a FCT PhD scholarship (https://doi.org/10.54499/2020.07799.BD), and completed her Master's Degree in Forensic and Criminal Psychology in 2019 and her Bachelor's in Psychology in 2017 at the Egas Moniz University Institute. She has published 12 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Her main research areas are: Criminal Profiling; Validity; Firesetting; Arsonists; Domestic Violence.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rita Alexandra Brilha Ribeiro

Citation names

  • Ribeiro, Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D510-AE5F-EE24
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6461-9695

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020 - 2025
Concluded
 Psicologia Forense (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
"Rural and Urban Arsonists: Investigating Specific Criminal Profiles and the Efficacy of the Firesetting Intervention Program for Prisoners" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor
2019/09/11
Concluded
 Psicologia Forense e Criminal (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz, Portugal
"Is criminal profiling a valid forensic technique? application in portuguese cases of rural arsonists" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17 valores
2014/09 - 2017/07
Concluded
 Psicologia (Licenciatura)
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz, Portugal
 15 valores
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - Current Rural and Urban Arsonists: Investigating Specific Criminal Profiles and the Efficacy of the Firesetting Intervention Program for Prisoners
2020.07799.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Fernandes, Ana F.; Ribeiro, Rita A.; Almeida, Telma C.. "Transmisión Intergeneracional de Violencia : Una muestra portuguesa de padres e hijos". 2018.
  2. Gomes, Alexandre; Fernandes, Ana; Ribeiro, Rita; Cardoso, Jorge. "Ciberpornografia e atitudes sexuais em estudantes universitários: Estudo exploratório". 2018.
Conference poster
  1. Ribeiro, Rita. "Crenças Sobre Violência Conjugal e Agressividade em Atletas de Desportos de Combate e Artes Marciais". Paper presented in OPVC / UFP, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Rita Ribeiro; Tânia Querido; Duarte Teles; Cristina Soeiro. "Characterizing the criminal behavior and psychosocial features of female rural arsonists". Psychology, Crime & Law (2025): https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2025.2564365.
    10.1080/1068316X.2025.2564365
  2. Rita Ribeiro; Cristina Neves; Daniel Rijo; Cristina Soeiro. "Does the setting matter? Characterizing and classifying rural and urban arsonists". Legal and Criminological Psychology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.70007.
    10.1111/lcrp.70007
  3. Rita Ribeiro; Duarte Teles; Luís Proença; Iris Almeida; Cristina Soeiro. "A typology of rural arsonists: characterising patterns of criminal behaviour". Psychology, Crime & Law (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2024.2318373.
    10.1080/1068316X.2024.2318373
  4. Cristina Soeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6173-3337; Rita Ribeiro; Iris Almeida https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2367-8159; Rosa Saavedra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4286-6772; Sónia Caridade https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0387-7900; Ana Oliveira https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4171-1971; Manuela Santos https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5169-1695. "Violence against Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Children to the Elderly". Social Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12020091.
    10.3390/socsci12020091
  5. Rita Ribeiro; Iris Almeida; Rosa Saavedra; Sónia Caridade; Ana Oliveira; Manuela Santos; Cristina Soeiro. "The Different Contexts of Domestic Violence Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Portuguese Overview". Victims & Offenders (2022): https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2022.2052214.
    10.1080/15564886.2022.2052214
  6. Iris Almeida; Rosa Saavedra; Sónia Caridade; Ana Oliveira; Manuela Santos; Cristina Soeiro. "The Different Contexts of Domestic Violence Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Portuguese Overview". Victims & Offenders (2022): 1-17. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15564886.2022.2052214.
    Open access • Published
  7. Ribeiro, Rita; Caridade, Sónia; Saavedra, Rosa; Oliveira, Ana; Santos, Manuela; Almeida, Iris; Soeiro, Cristina. "Remote support to victims of violence against women and domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic". The Journal of Adult Protection (2021): https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JAP-04-2021-0015/full/html.
    Open access • Published
  8. Ribeiro, Rita; Soeiro, Cristina. "Analysing Criminal Profiling Validity: Underlying Problems and Future Directions". International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (2020):
    Under revision
  9. Ribeiro, Rita; Luís Proença; Iris Almeida; Cristina Soeiro. "Testing Validity on Rural Arson Criminal Profiling". Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. (2020):
    Submitted
  10. Alexandre, Gomes; Ana Filipa, Fernandes; Rita, Ribeiro; Susana, Monteiro. "Race effects in facial recognition: the evolution". Annals of Medicine 51 sup1 (2019): 182-183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07853890.2018.1562752.
    Published • 10.1080/07853890.2018.1562752
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Ribeiro, Rita Alexandra Brilha. "Is criminal profiling a valid forensic technique? Application in portuguese cases of rural arsonists". Master, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/29878.