Faculty

Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt, D.Phil.

Associate Professor Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Dr. Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt is an associate professor at the IIRP, a professor of law at the Catholic University of Pernambuco (UNICAP, Brazil), and a research associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. She also serves as the book review editor for The International Journal of Restorative Justice and a member of the Peace, Culture, and Restorative Justice Steering Committee of the Municipality of Recife (Brazil).
Her work sits at the intersection of restorative justice, criminal justice reform, and social justice, bridging research, policy, and practice. While her scholarship has long engaged with gendered violence, her work more broadly examines community-based and transformative responses to harm, inequality, and institutional violence. She is the author of The Role of Community in Restorative Justice (Routledge, 2015) and has been published widely in international journals and edited volumes on restorative justice, justice reform, and gendered violence.
Fernanda has collaborated with international and public institutions on several occasions, including with the United Nations as an expert reviewer of the United Nations Handbook on Restorative Justice Programmes and as a Portuguese-language specialist for the translation of the Restorative Justice and Gendered Violence modules of UNODC’s Education for Justice initiative. She is a co-editor of the Handbook on Methods in Restorative Justice Research (Brill, 2025) and the Latin America and Caribbean volume of the International Encyclopaedia of Restorative Justice (Brill, forthcoming), and is co-authoring Gendered Violence and Restorative Justice (Routledge, forthcoming). She regularly contributes to international policy debates and has delivered keynote addresses in Brazil and internationally.

Fernanda earned her doctoral degree in Criminology from the University of Oxford in 2014 and a Master's in Criminology from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2005. 

 

 

 

Selected Publications

  • Rasmussen, K. B., Rosenblatt, F. F., Pali, B., & Zinsstag, E. (Eds.). (2025). Handbook on methods in restorative justice research. Brill.
  • Rosenblatt, F. F. (2025). Survivor criminology: A radical act of hope, by Kimberly J. Cook, Jason M. Williams, Reneè D. Lamphere, Stacy L. Mallicoat and Alissa R. Ackerman (eds.) [Book review]. The International Journal of Restorative Justice, 8(3), 516-521. https://doi.org/10.1163/25890905-00803019
  • Rosenblatt, F. F. (2025, Spring). Gendered violence and restorative justice: Giving survivors voice and choice. IIRP Presidential Paper Series, 11, 1-28. https://www.iirp.edu/pps11
  • Rosenblatt, F. F. Pessoa de Mello, M. M., & Medeiros, C. S. L’A. Q. (2024). Restorative justice and domestic violence courts in Brazil: The double challenge of institutionalisation. In G. Maglione, I. D. Marder, & B. Pali (Eds.), Restorative justice at a crossroads: Dilemmas of institutionalisation (pp. 104-126). Routledge.
  • Rosenblatt, F. F., & Adamson, C. W. (2023). Non-encounter restorative justice interventions -- now what? Contemporary Justice Review, 26(1), 93-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2023.2216716
  • Rosenblatt, F. F., de Mello, M. M. P., & de Medeiros, C. S. L'A. Q. (2022). Secondary victimisation, procedural injustices, and machismo: The experiences of women who access Brazil's not-so-specialised domestic violence courts. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 47(2), 167-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.2022.2157456
  • Rosenblatt, F. F., & de Farias, K. A. D. (2021). Where is 'race' in restorative justice? Creating space for book reviews 'with a focus.' The International Journal of Restorative Justice, 4(3), 487-495. https://www.elevenjournals.com/tijdschrift/TIJRJ/2021/3/TIJRJ-D-21-00034
  • de Mello, M. M. P., Rosenblatt, F. C. de F., & de Medeiros, C. S. l’A. Q. (2021). Para além do "mundo jurídico": Um diálogo com as equipes multidisciplinares de Juizados (ou Varas) de Violência Doméstica. Revista Direito e Práxis, 12(1), 608-641. https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/revistaceaju/article/view/57098
  • Rosenblatt, F. F. (2019). How do we 'walk the talk'? Some reflections on restorative justice's (perhaps not so?) hidden values. In B. Pali, K. Lauwaert, & S. Pleysier (Eds.), The praxis of justice: Liber amicorum Ivo Aertsen (pp. 51-57). Eleven International Publishing.
  • Advincula, M. J. P., Santos, P. H. R. C., & Rosenblatt, F. F. (2018). A busca por manifestações práticas de justiça restaurativa no Brasil: Um ensaio crítico em torno dos círculos restaurativos e das dificuldades de se estabelecer um encontro com a brasilidade. In V. de C. Leal, J. T. Esteves, C. M. Padilha, I. V. Chaves, & A. U. Barradas (Eds). Conflitos e novos desafios do direito: Política, meio ambiente e novas tecnologias (pp.195-210). RTM.

Courses Taught

RP610 Evaluation of Research

RP622 History, Evolution, and Critical Issues in Restorative Justice

RP623 Restorative Justice: Global Perspectives

RP699 Integrating Seminar

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