Varona, Gema

University of the Basque Country

Gema Varona is a lecturer in Victimology and Criminal Policy at the University of the Basque Country and senior researcher at the Basque Institute of Criminology (Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain). In 1998 she was honoured with the Junior Scholar Competition Award of the International Society of Criminology. Former coordinator of the degree in criminology (2013-2017), current coordinator of the UPV/EHU MOOC on Victimology (2016-present), and co-director of the Master in Victimology of that University (2014-present), she is also the co-editor of the Journal of Victimology/Revista de Victimología. She has authored books and articles on migration and human rights, restorative justice, violence against women, victims of terrorism, and victims of sexual abuse.

Contributions

• Janus in the Metropole: Moroccan Soldiers and Sexual Violence Against Women in the Spanish Civil War

  Special Issue: Criminalisation and the Violence(s) of the State

  Vol. 10 No. 4 (2021)