Substantive Computer Criminal Law
Offense definition, protected legal goods, cyber offenses in detail, criminal liability, and adaptation of classical imputation models to digital networked environments.
Legal-Criminal Order of the Network Society & Supranational Cyber Criminal Policy
This section compiles research axes, scientific publications, doctoral research structure, and doctrinal production dedicated to cyber criminal investigation, digital evidence, criminal policy, and Criminal Law in the networked era.
Doctoral Dissertation in Progress
Legal-Criminal Order of the Network Society and Supranational Cyber Criminal Policy
University of Minho, Portugal · JusGov — Research Centre for Justice and Governance
This doctoral research articulates the theory of networked law, the structural transformation of criminal law in the information society, and the necessity of a supranational cyber criminal policy capable of addressing the borderless nature of digital criminality. The approach integrates the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, international judicial and police cooperation, and the substantive penal challenges posed by rapid digital transformation.
Dissertation Framework
Part I
Theory of Networked Law
Theoretical foundations for analyzing legal plurality, cross-border interconnection, and normative articulation in a globalized environment.
Part II
Legal-Criminal Order of the Informational Society
Challenges of offense classification, criminal authorship, digital forensics, artificial intelligence, and adaptation of classical penal categories.
Part III
Supranational Cyber Criminal Policy
International cooperation models, networked criminal justice governance, and multilateral statutory responses to global cybercrime.
Research Pillars
Cyber Criminal Investigation & Digital Evidence
Digital evidence, chain of custody, OSINT, electronic data preservation, cloud service provider cooperation, international requests, and networked investigative techniques.
Supranational Cyber Criminal Policy
Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, networked penal governance, international mutual legal assistance, statutory harmonization, and institutional responses to transnational crime.
AI, Algorithmic Bias & Public Security
Deployment of AI in law enforcement, algorithmic discrimination risks, accountability mechanisms, regulatory compliance, and constitutional boundaries of automated state power.
Hate Crimes & Online Defamation
Typologies, tactical digital investigation, evidentiary preservation, jurisdiction, digital platform governance, and criminal law responses to online hate speech.
Police Sciences & Specialized Training
Curriculum development, forensic case studies, lesson plans, police-specific problem solving, and applied pedagogical methodologies for law enforcement training.
Cyber Organized Crime Research Group (GPCOC)
GP · COC — DGP/CNPq Certified
Cyber Organized Crime Research Group
National Police Academy · Federal Police of Brazil · Established in 2016
2016
Year Established
5
Research Tracks
12
Researchers & Fellows
Role: Group Leader · since April 9, 2016
Public CNPq Record: 15 peer-reviewed articles · 5 book chapters · 1 book · 44 conference presentations · 15 technical reports · 15 academic advisorships completed · 163 cumulative scientific items.
Group Research Tracks
High-Tech Crimes & Cyber Investigation
Computer forensics, digital investigative techniques, forensic artifact examination, and applied cybercrime methodologies.
Organized Cybercrime & Global Illicit Markets
Transnational criminal syndicates, darknet ecosystems, cryptoassets, digital platforms, and cybercrime value chains.
OSINT & Threat Intelligence
Open source intelligence, cyber threat attribution, threat actor profiling, and technical intelligence for strategic decision-making.
Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation on the Internet
Tactical prevention, specialized investigation, and prosecution of online crimes against children and adolescents.
Digital Evidence, Chain of Custody & International Cooperation
Statutory legality, acquisition, preservation, admissibility, cross-border data sharing, and procedural use of electronic evidence.
Authored Book
Authored Book · 2015
Cyber Criminal Investigation: Toward a Criminal Policy for the Protection of Children and Adolescents on the Internet
Núria Fabris Editora
ISBN: 978-85-8175-081-1
Book Chapters
Book Chapter · 2026 (forthcoming)
"Cybercriminology"
In: Treatise on Criminology and Crime Control Strategies — Eds. Higor Jorge & Waldek Cavalcante · Jus Podivm
Book Chapter · 2025
"Chain of Custody as a Guarantee of Reliability for Digital Evidentiary Items"
In: Legal Studies in Honor of Professor Geraldo Prado on his 65th Birthday — Eds. Antonio Pedro Melchior et al.
Book Chapter · 2025
"Legality, Means of Obtaining Digital Evidence, and the Right to Due Criminal Investigation in Cyberspace"
In: Fundamental Rights and Criminal Procedure in the Digital Era
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2025
"Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Law in the New Millennium"
Revista Memória · Vol. 4, No. 5
Presented at the COPEDEM International Congress 2025 (Rio de Janeiro)
2023Journal Record ↗
"Police Intelligence Activity as an Instrument for Fulfilling the Fundamental Right to Public Security"
Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences (RBCP)
Co-authored with Fábio Alceu Mertens and Felipe Scarpelli de Andrade
2021Journal Record ↗
"Evidence-Based Policing and Decision Making"
Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences (RBCP)
2020Journal Record ↗
"Police, Emerging Technologies, and Global Crises"
Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences (RBCP)
Co-authored with Kristiane de Cássia Mariotti
2015Journal Record ↗
"Autonomy and Institutional Efficiency of the Federal Judicial Police"
Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences (RBCP)
2018Journal Record ↗
"DNA Profiling and Criminal Investigation: Forensic Identification or Evidentiary Source under Constitutional Safeguards?"
Journal of Judicial Police Law · Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 113–149
Technical & Pedagogical Materials
Instructional Manual · 2024
Instructional Manual on Investigating Online Hate Crimes in Electoral Matters
Specialized Course · ANP/ESP-PF
Specialized Cybercrime Countermeasures Course
Instructional Manual · 2010
Instructional Manual on Investigating Online Child Sexual Exploitation
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