Ana M. Martín

• PhD
• Professor at University of La Laguna

The defense of animal rights has contributed to questioning the relationship between humans and animals focusing on animal abuse by humans. Current Spanish law has been reformed to safeguard animals that are either protected fauna or that live under human control, no longer considering them as things but as sentient beings. The aim of this study is...

Ascertaining the true prevalence of adolescent-to-parent violence (APV) is challenging because the measurement of APV in research is complex. There is no consensus on which behaviors constitute APV or how frequently they need to occur to be considered abusive. This study aimed to explore the normative beliefs about APV related to the perpetrator's...

Environmental protection laws are useful tools for promoting sustainability by eradicating anti-environmental behavior while encouraging alternative sustainable behaviors. However, the achievement of these goals relies on the psychosocial processes underlying the behaviors of the people in charge of the enforcement of these laws. Conservation offic...

Social and academic interest in animal abuse has recently increased thanks to greater awareness of the importance of biodiversity in promoting sustainability. The redefinition of human-animal relationships, in the context of the fight against speciesism and the defense of veganism, has also contributed to this greater attention. Moreover, public aw...

Introduction: Adolescent-to-Parent Violence (APV) is a social problem with serious family and social repercussions. Research on the subject has so far focused mainly on parents and children, ignoring the socializing role played by teachers in the development of children and adolescents. The aim of the study is to analyze the explanations given by t...

This project contributes to the to the development of the 2030 Agenda. Specifically, it has an impact on the sustainable development goals that promote gender equality, violence prevention and the sustainable development goals that promote gender equality, the prevention of violence and the exercise of women's and children's rights.

Objectives: This study contributes to the neuroscience of offending behavior by addressing two aims: a) to examine differences in the cortical features in a group of male serious juvenile offenders (21 OG), versus controls (28 CG), both ranging from 18 to 21 years old; and b) to determine to what extent the differential cortical features and the ri...

The main objective of this study was to establish the psychosocial profile of adolescents and adults who have admitted to committing child-to-parent violence (CPV) and were serving a judicial sanction or prison sentence, respectively. Two groups of participants took part in this study. The first group was made up of 89 male youths who were serving...

This study analyzes the early desistance narratives of a sample of 44 male offenders, between 20 and 50 years old, incarcerated in Spain for serious crimes. In particular, two types of the inmates’ stories are evaluated: 1) their narratives of personal change toward a non-criminal life (identity change, perceived self-efficacy and willingness for d...

Background: Adolescent-to-parent violence (APV) is a social problem that is seldom addressed from a psychosocial level of analysis. This work aims to fi ll this gap by developing the Escala de Explicaciones de la Violencia Filioparental (EEVFP), an instrument to measure APV explanations given spontaneously by ordinary people. Method: The sample was...

Education in prison helps to reduce recidivism, but the relationship between academic performance and recidivism is spurious, as most prisoners belong to more vulnerable and deprived social groups with deficits that not only influence lower academic standards but also have a direct impact on fewer opportunities once released. The objective of this...

Research on adolescent-to-parent violence (APV) associates specific psychosocial characteristics with adolescents who assault their parents, whether they are within or outside the juvenile justice system, or whether these characteristics are shared by other adolescents convicted of other crimes. The aim of this paper is to compare three groups of a...

Child-to-parent violence (CPV) is a type of domestic violence that has gained social and scientific visibility in recent years. The objective of this study is to analyze different forms of CPV and their relationship with two groups of variables. The first group includes gender, age, family structure, school year, academic performance, drug use, fre...

Child-to-parent violence (CPV) is a type of domestic violence that has become highly visible in recent years. One of the most replicated findings of research on the topic is that children who assault their parents have suffered direct violence within the family or have witnessed such violence more often than those who have not. The aim of this rese...

Priority given to investigating the onset and maintenance of criminal behavior in the past is currently giving way to a new focus on the process of criminal desistance. Early narratives of future desistance are the first step in this process and, although they do not assure withdrawal from crime, they are the beginning of the personal change that p...

La teoría de la autodeterminación de Ryan y Deci (2000) sugiere que la motivación extrínseca autónoma, al igual que la motivación intrínseca, se relaciona con el rendimiento, la satisfacción, la confianza y el bienestar de las personas. Pelletier, Tuson, Green-Demers, Noels, y Beaton (1998) indican que las personas más auto-determinadas están más i...

Psychological research into illegal anti-environmental behaviour is scarce because this type of behaviour is difficult to analyse and conceptualize. Motivational variables and, in particular, regulation mechanisms can help to explain this type of environmentally significant behaviour. The aim of this research is to analyse the relationship between...

La investigación sobre los profesionales encargados de aplicar las leyes de protección medioambiental (LPMA) se ha centrado en muestras pequeñas (35 profesionales o menos) y/o en un número reducido de observaciones en ambientes naturales. Además, se suele estudiar exclusivamente la discrecionalidad, el estrés laboral, la satisfacción, los estilos d...

The aim of this study is to propose and test a comprehensive model of compliance with environmental law (EL). The legal and psychosocial peculiarities of environmental transgressions suggest that the nature and relative impact of the determinants of ordinary people's compliance with EL may differ from those involved in compliance with ordinary laws...

This study explores romantic relationships among female juvenile offenders. The entire female population of a juvenile detention center at the moment of the study participated in a semi-structured interview. Using a semi-structured interview, the girls answered questions on four main topics: (a) available dating partners before entering the detenti...

El delito ecológico es un quebrantamiento de las leyes de protección del medio ambiente, que implica actos que no todo el mundo considera reprensibles (Mårald, 2001) pero que están sujetos a la sanción penal o administrativa (Martín y Hernández, 2010). El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la relación entre las razones para no realizar el comport...

Los delitos ecológicos son quebrantamientos de las leyes de protección del medio ambiente que implican actos que no todo el mundo considera reprensibles (Mårald, 2001) pero que están sujetos a sanciones penales o administrativa (Martín y Hernández, 2010). Los funcionarios responsables de la aplicación de las leyes medioambientales han de hacer fren...

Environmental crimes are behaviors that break environmental laws but are not universally perceived as illegal, or even reproachable, though they harm both the environment and human beings. This lack of social reproach may be related to the peculiarities of the consequences, sanctions, victims, and perpetrators. This study aims to analyze the social...

Background: Not everyone considers breaches of environmental laws as reprehensible behaviors or to the same extent. Research on the causal explanations of illegal anti-ecological behavior given by individuals is useful to analyze the social support of environmental laws and their consolidation as social and/or personal norms. This study aims to an...

The present study examines the influence of perception of neighbourhood crowding, noise, danger, and physical care on neighbourhood attachment. To this end, a total of496 Spanish students from Barcelona and La Laguna participate in this study. In order to control for the variable time of residence, only natives of the neighbourhood were selected as...

Las transgresiones medioambientales son quebrantamientos de las leyes de protección medioambiental (LPMA) que incluyen comportamientos muy variados, tan distintos entre sí como para requerir criterios de valoración diferentes. El propósito de este estudio es analizar la percepción de los distintos tipos de transgresiones medioambientales que tienen...

La Ley Orgánica de Responsabilidad Penal de los Menores2 (LORPM), en su artículo 45, establece que la ejecución de las medidas adoptadas por los Jueces deMenores en sus sentencias firmes es competencia de las Comunidades Autónomasy de las Ciudades de Ceuta y Melilla. Por lo tanto, las Comunidades Autónomasson las responsables de que se ejecuten las...

Los estudios sobre la representación del medio ambiente en televisión muestran, en general, una baja aparición de contenidos ambientales y una representación sesgada de los mismos. Con el fin de evaluar la presencia y representación de estos contenidos en programas de ficción en la televisión española, se analizaron 44 horas de programación infanti...

Las transgresiones medioambientales son quebrantamientos de las leyes de protección medioambiental (LPMA) que constituyen una forma peculiar de comportamiento ilegal desde un punto de vista jurídico y psicosocial. Las LPMA incluyen comportamientos muy variados, tan distintos entre sí como para requerir criterios de valoración diferentes. En este es...

Place identity and place attachment have been related to several environmental variables such as appropriation, residential satisfaction, physical care taken of the neighbourhood, restorativeness, environmental attitudes and, especially, pro-environmental behaviour. However, the role of place identity and place attachment has not been analyzed in r...

The aim of this study is to assess the extent to which social and employment integration enhances the efficacy of social–cognitive training carried out in prison through a Spanish adaptation of the Reasoning & Rehabilitation (R & R) programme. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare a group of inmates who received only social–cognitive trai...

This study analyzes the impact of services provided by the Programa de Tutorías Educativas (PTE), or Educational Tutorials Program, on attitudes and behavior of juveniles in centers in the Canary Islands as a result of judicial measures, as well as the effect of psychological variables on this impact. The program under assessment focused on basic e...

This chapter is aimed at both analyzing current theories on normative variables related to anti-environmental behavior, and testing an explanatory model using these normative variables as determinants of such a behavior. We first review theories and factors related to the inhibition of anti-ecological conducts; then, we present and discuss results...

El propósito del presente estudio fue evaluar el impacto de variables presumiblemente relacionadas con el desarrollo de normas ambientales, dado que las transgresiones ambientales son una forma particular de conducta antisocial. 186 estudiantes de licenciatura en una universidad mexicana contestaron un cuestionario que midió su auto-reporte de comp...

The characteristics of environmental transgressions and transgressors involved in 1,505 files handled by 4 public administrations were assessed. These administrations were in charge of environmental law enforcement in a highly protected setting, across federal, state, island, and municipality jurisdictions. Special attention was given to the transg...

La literatura reconoce varios factores que influyen en el cumplimiento de las normas. Una de ellos sería la norma social; otros serían la norma personal, la legitimidad de las autoridades y de la ley, y uno más la disuasión. Las normas personales se definen como los estándares morales de los individuos, mientras que las normas sociales son los está...

The of breaches of environmental law is not always evident. This characteristic contributes to making the study of people's evaluation of anti-ecological behaviour of special interest for the understanding of environmental law compliance. In this study, 573 participants evaluated seven transgressions of environmental law, on seven scales. The resul...

Three-hundred and twenty written accounts of environmental transgressors were assessed by sequential analysis to reveal their argument streams. The accounts were obtained from the written statements that transgressors are allowed to give during the Spanish administrative process and which were included in files handled by four environmental law enf...

Anthropocentrism and ecocentrism are the main ideas on which environmental attitudes and evaluative judgments of the natural environmental are based. Although anthropocentrism and ecocentrism have traditionally been considered independent dimensions, a review of the studies in which the relationship between these concepts is analyzed provides no de...

El propósito de esta investigación es analizar la relación de la norma personal vinculada a las transgresiones medioambientales, con las normas sociales, las variables disuasorias, la percepción de la autoridad y el convencionalismo, variables predictoras cuya relevancia en el ámbito de las leyes en general había sido constatada previamente. Asimis...

Environmental crimes have been legally defined as transgressions of Environmental laws. However, this approach is considered limited from the studies on ecological justice because, among other factors, it does not take into account the social perception of environmental crime. This research has been designed from the ecological justice perspective...

This work is aimed at examining to what extent the reasons that observers give for the transgressors’ behavior are related to the amount of punishment assigned for environmental offences. 573 persons from Santa Cruz de Tenerife answered a questionnaire in which they had to evaluate to what extent a transgressor’s behavior in seven real environmenta...

This study is aimed at examining how ordinary people perceive environmental transgressions occurring in their own immediate context. 611 persons from the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife were sampled in function of age, gender and zone of residence (urban, rural and tourist zones). Participants answered a questionnaire to evaluate seven illegal b...

This study is aimed at examining the influence of neighbourhood environmental conditions on bonds with the neighbourhood. Stressor and neighbourhood maintenance factors were measured as antecedent conditions and neighbourhood attachment and identity of place as emotional bonds. Years of residence in the neighbourhood was also taken into account as...

Este estudio se dirige a examinar la percepción de las conductas tipificadas en las leyes medioambientales como delitos e infracciones, tal como se producen en la vida cotidiana. Se seleccionaron 20 transgresiones de un total de 1507 expedientes y denuncias, iniciadas por cuatro administraciones locales y estatales con competencias en materia medio...

Los delitos ecológicos se definen como transgresiones a las leyes que protegen el medio ambiente. Estas leyes se encuentran dispersas en distintos documentos que abarcan desde el Código Penal hasta ordenanzas municipales, pasando por decretos de rango autonómico o insular. En estos últimos casos se trata de infracciones que no constituyen delitos p...

Jury research has dealt almost exclusively with the American system wherein 6-12 laypersons decide verdicts under a unanimity or non-unanimity rule. However, most Western European countries follow the escabinado system, in which laypersons and judges together decide verdict and sentence, under a non-unanimous rule. We experimentally compared the pr...

Decision making groups, including European juries, often contain factions differing in status. Mock juries composed of trained and layperson status factions decided guilt and punishment for realistic cases of university code violations. Cases presented predominantly intellective or judgmental issues, and juries had to justify verdicts according to...

En este trabajo se estudia la percepción del delito desde la perspectiva de los episodios sociales. Los objetivos más importantes de nuestra investigación fueron: a) aislar y comparar las dimensiones que subyacen a la percepción del delito en tres grupos de sujetos: delincuentes ins-titucionalizados, profesionales del sistema penal y grupo de perso...