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Biography

Esther Montero has a law degree from the University of Seville and a PhD in Criminology; she obtained her doctorate in 2008 at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), at the School of Criminal Sciences with honourable mention Magna Cum Laude. Since 2010 she belongs to the Technical Superior Body of Penitentiary Institutions (Spanish Ministry of the Interior), as Jurist and criminologist in the Prison system. She was Deputy Director of Treatment at the Huelva Penitentiary Centre from 2012 to 2017, when she obtained the post of Jurist-criminologist at the Women Penitentiary Centre (women prison). Currently, she is Jurist-criminologist at the Sevilla Penitentiary Centre (Sevilla 1) and she is a member of the Europris and CEP (Confederation European of Probation) Expert Group of "Foreign National Prisoners" (CEP/EuroPris FNPP Expert Group).

As a jurist, in addition to being a specialist in criminal and penitentiary law, she is a specialist in immigration legal issues (immigration in the criminal enforcement system and international legal cooperation in criminal matters). As a criminologist, she specializes in crime and foreigners, correctional core skills (basic skills in dealing with offenders), education in prison, social control and gender issues.

At the same time, she has been lecturer (teacher and trainer) in several institutions, among them, the Penitentiary Training Centre in Madrid, the Centre for Legal Studies in Madrid and Barcelona, and in several Universities. Currently, she is Associated Researcher in the University of Seville, in the framework of a EU project focused on the EAW, and Collaborator (professor and researcher) of Law and Criminology at the Universidad Loyola Andalucía (Loyola University).

She has participated in several international research projects funded by the European Commission, five of them focused on international legal cooperation (in criminal matters). Specifically, she was the Principal Researcher of the Spanish team of the PONT Project (Probation Observatory: Network and Training), of the Brisar Project (Bringing Safety to the Road) an Erasmus K-204 project focused on the development of a treatment program for road safety offenders and, currently, the REUNION Project (Rehabilitation of foreign inmates within the scope of FD2008/909/JHA), financed by the European Commission (Call JUST-2022-JTRA).

She has participated as an expert in several international exchange programs on prison and probation issues (among them several EU Twining Projects). Among other projects, she has been Leader Project of the EU Twining Project “Support to further development and strengthening of the Probation Service in Croatia” (from April 2016 to October 2017), and key and short-term expert for several international projects, among others, in Republic of Mali, Guyana, Turkey, Moldavia, Jordan or Kosovo.

In addition, she is the author of various scientific articles, among others, in the field of Penitentiary Law, Criminology and International Legal Cooperation in criminal matters, and has collaborated and edited several books on international legal cooperation, as well as participated in several collective books on various topics of law, criminology and teaching innovation.

Activities

Employment (3)

Universidad de Sevilla: Seville, ES

2024-02 to present | Researcher associated (Derecho )
Employment
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Universidad Loyola Andalucía: Seville, ES

2016-09-01 to present | Collaborator Associated professor (Derecho y Criminología)
Employment
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Secretaría General de Instituciones Penitenciarias: Madrid, Sevilla, ES

2010 to present | Jurista - Criminóloga de Instituciones Penitenciarias
Employment
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Education and qualifications (3)

Université de Lausanne: Lausanne, Vaud, CH

2006 to 2008 | PhD in Criminology (Criminology)
Education
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Université de Lausanne: Lausanne, CH

2004-09-01 to 2006-07-01 | DESS in criminology (Master in criminology) (Ecole de sciences criminelles)
Education
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Universidad de Sevilla: Seville, ES

1999-09-01 to 2004-07-01 | Law Degree (Derecho )
Education
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Funding (5)

EPHESUS (Promoting fundamental rights in (post) pandemic times in cross border proceedings

2024-02 to 2026-02 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER:

101138590

Source: Self-asserted source
Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Rehabilitation of foreign inmates within the scope of FD 2008/909/JHA

2022-12 to 2025-02 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

Project number: 101090118; Call: JUST-2022-JTRA

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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Bringing Safety on the Roads (BriSaR)

2019-09 to 2021-08 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER:

Erasmus+ KA204 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

PONT (Probation Observatory. Networking and Training)

2018-09 to 2022-02 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER:

NUMBER — 807026 — PONT

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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Women in prison

2018-01 to 2021-01 | Salary award
Universidad Loyola Chicago (Chicago, US)
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Works (33)

Las excepciones al «sistema de individualización científica» en la ejecución penal. La inevitable deriva hacia un «derecho penitenciario del enemigo»

La ley penal: revista de derecho penal, procesal y penitenciario
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela; Javier Nistal
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

EL ROL DE CUIDADORA COMO FACTOR CRIMINOVALENTE: LA MUJER RECLUSA EN EL SISTEMA PENITENCIARIO ESPAÑOL

Revista de Derecho Penal y Criminología
2024-05-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Esther Montero; Blanca Martín Ríos
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Underuse of Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA in the Spanish legal system: The case of conditional release. A forthcoming change in trend!

European Journal of Probation
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Community Corrections in Spain

Routledge
2024-04-30 | Book chapter
Contributors: Ioan Durnescu; James M. Byrne; Benjamin J. Mackey; Faye S. Taxman; Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

European probation order: What doesn't work? Recommendations to overcome its underuse

Criminology & Criminal Justice
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela; Carmen Rocío García Ruiz
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Mas humanidad y menos prejuicios: el efecto del paso por la prisión en el alumnado universitario

Revista de Educación y Derecho
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

El uso de la tecnología en la ejecución de las penas privativas de libertad: tecnología y prisión

2021 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/185-370-642-605-229

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

La orden europea de supervisión y su infrautilización en el sistema jurídico español. Obstáculos y dificultades detectadas en su implementación

2021 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/153-597-105-161-082

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

La sobrerrepresentación del extranjero en las estadísticas de la criminalidad española: Política de extranjería vs política penitenciaria. Discusión y algunas recomendaciones

2021 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/096-794-658-788-069

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

The underutilisation of the european supervision order: Framework decision 2009/829/jha as just a scrap of paper

European Law Review
2021 | Journal article
URI:

https://lens.org/193-179-731-552-856

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela; Carmen Rocío García Ruiz
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Estudiantes de criminología tras las rejas: una experiencia transformativa

2020 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/173-019-988-686-27X

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

La innovación docente al servicio de las necesidades sociales: la necesidad de prevención del acoso escolar

2020 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/048-280-496-487-474

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

La sobrerrepresentación del inmigrante en el sistema de justicia penal: Reeducación y reinserción vs. repatriación en el sistema punitivo español

2020 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/124-281-781-152-058

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Literature review on the Council Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA of 27 November 2008 and the Council Framework Decision 2009/829/JHA of 23 October 2009

2020 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/153-773-180-503-118

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela; Carmen Rocío García Ruiz; Lorea Arenas García; Blanca Martin Ríos; Gloria Fernández-Pacheco Alises
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Telematic Control and Semi-Freedom as a Response to the Pandemic: The Spanish Penitentiary System Experience

Victims & Offenders
2020-10-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1556-4886
Part of ISSN: 1556-4991
Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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El secreto profesional en el ámbito penitenciario: Respeto a la relación terapéutica vs límites a la confidencialidad debida en el marco del tratamiento

2019 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/019-494-938-650-294

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

La reeducación y la reinserción social en prisión: El tratamiento en el medio penitenciario español

Revista de estudios socioeducativos : RESED
2019 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2341-3255
Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Las opciones repatriativas en el ordenamiento jurídico español para el extranjero infractor: factores a tener en cuenta por los profesionales del tratamiento y los operadores jurídicos

Revista Electrónica de Ciencia Penal y Criminología
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Las opciones repatriativas en el ordenamiento jurídico español para el extranjero infractor: factores a tener en cuenta por los profesionales del tratamiento y los operadores jurídicos

2019 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/107-501-102-354-746

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Le système de probation en Espagne. Les peines et mesures alternatives à la prison dans le système juridique espagnol.

Zenodo
2019-05-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Le système de probation en Espagne. Les peines et mesures alternatives à la prison dans le système juridique espagnol.

Zenodo
2019-05-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Medidas de "probation" en España: alternativas a la prisión y algunas apreciaciones sobre la adaptación del sistema español a la normativa europea

2018 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/140-007-447-176-933

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Prisoner transfer and the importance of the ‘release effect’

Criminology and Criminal Justice
2017 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85029697011

Part of ISSN: 17488966 17488958
Contributors: Durnescu, I.; Montero Perez de Tudela, E.; Ravagnani, L.
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El fenómeno del yihadismo : especial mención a sus características en el medio penitenciario español

2016 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/173-871-006-214-518

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

La población penitenciaria en España e Italia: estudio comparativo de la situación de la población carcelaria extranjera en ambos países

2016 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/105-516-151-496-424

Contributors: Esther Montero Perez de Tudela; Luisa Ravagnani
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

LA DETENZIONE DEGLI STRANIERI IN ITALIA E SPAGNA

Zenodo
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Luisa RAVAGNANI; Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela; Carlo Alberto Romano
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LA DETENZIONE DEGLI STRANIERI IN ITALIA E SPAGNA

Zenodo
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Luisa RAVAGNANI; Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela; Carlo Alberto Romano
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La evolución de la población penitenciaria en España entre 1996 y 2014. Algunas causas explicativas

2015 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/021-485-379-379-190

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela; Javier Nistal Burón
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

Las medidas repatriativas en el ámbito penitenciario: especial mención al traslado de personas condenadas a la luz de las nuevas reformas legislativas

2015 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/158-319-544-599-141

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

La extranjería en prisión: las distintas medidas repatriativas en el ámbito penitenciario según la clase de extranjero

2014 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/016-388-990-998-994

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

La población penitenciaria extranjera en España: evolución y características

2014 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/176-145-943-894-960

Contributors: Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela; Javier Nistal Burón
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela

The expulsion of foreigners: A study of the factors related to the judiciary expulsion out of Switzerland,L'expulsion des étrangers: Une étude des facteurs influençant l'expulsion judiciaire hors de Suisse

Revue Internationale de Criminologie et de Police Technique et Scientifique
2009 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-77949851976

Part of ISSN: 14244683
Contributors: Montero-Pérez-De-Tudela, E.
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela via Scopus - Elsevier

La délinquance des étrangers : criminalité, récidive et les facteurs influençant le retour en prison

2008 | Other
URI:

https://lens.org/086-570-367-243-960

Contributors: E. Montero Pérez de Tudela
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Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela