Isabella Merzagora - Profile

Isabella Merzagora is full professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Medicine and at the Faculty of Law (State University of Milan).
She teaches in a lot of academic courses and coordinates a Post-Laurea course of Criminology and Criminal Psychology.
She is President of the Italian Society of Criminology.
She is author of more than 280 papers, and 18 monographs.
She has been appointed by some national and international institutions as an expert in the fields of criminology and forensic psychopathology.
She worked as an expert in some Italian jails and Courts.
She makes expertises about defence of insanity for a lots of Italian Courts, also in very well-known cases.
She has been lectures in more than two hundreds conferences.
She leads a project for the criminological treatment of abusing partners.
Currently her main interest is in the fields of genocides and of bioethical topics (medical tragic choices and disabled people treatment).