Charter of Ethics
The Research Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences (CIDPCC) is an R&D unit accredited by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) that is governed by high standards of suitability and ethical principles, based on the values of personal and professional responsibilities, freedom, and integrity in research. All the activity carried out by its researchers and other participants is guided, both within the centre and in collaboration with external entities and people, by these principles.
The centre integrates research groups in three different sub-areas that are, in turn, developed in several multidisciplinary projects, with national and foreign researchers, of various genders, with different ages and with different professional and academic backgrounds.
On the other hand, the activity of the unit, which is mainly a research centre in legal sciences, embraces other areas such as medicine, literature, or technology. It also involves public and private partners and, often, the use of data, posing ethical dilemmas that urgently need to be framed.
Researchers and other collaborators, senior or at the beginning of their careers, while carrying out activity in the Centre or in the scope of its activities, ought to scrupulously observe the provisions of this Charter and other applicable legislation.