Souza Cruz

Olga

Olga Souza Cruz holds a PhD in Psychology (specialization domain of Forensic Psychology) and, since 2011, she is an Assistant Professor at University of Maia, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences (UMAIA, Portugal). From 2021 to the present, she is also Coordinator of the 1st Cycle of Studies in Criminology, at this same university. She is also an integrated researcher in the Research Centre for Justice and Governance of the University of Minho (JusGov/UM, Portugal), since 2013. One of her main research interests regards the different types of drug (ab)use (namely, non-problematic illicit drug uses and problematic ones, the drug-crime association), trying to understand the phenomena and to identify good practices to cope with it.