Lucas Melgaço
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professor
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Crime & Society
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security & policing
Lucas Melgaço is Professor of Urban Criminology in the Department of Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and coordinator of the Crime and Society Research Group (CRiS).
His main scientific interests are in the domains of urban criminology, surveillance, policing, public order, social movements and protests, and the relationships between information and communication technologies, space and security. He has also worked on translating and introducing the theories of the Brazilian geographer Milton Santos to the English-speaking community. Lucas is co-editor of the books "Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance" (Routledge, 2018), "Milton Santos: A Pioneer in Critical Geography from the Global South"(Springer, 2017) and "Order and Conflict in Public Space" (Routledge, 2016). He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Criminological Encounters.