Professor in Criminal Law and Criminology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Among his honors he obtained the Excelence Research Award in 2008 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has been visiting researcher at the Institute of Criminology of Cambridge University (United Kingdom), at the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom) and at the Università degli Studi di Bologna (Italy). Currently he is the head of the research group Desistance from crime and Reinsertion Policies. His main lines of research are: desistance, prisons, criminological theory, treatment, penology.

Key publications:

• Cid, J. (2008). "El incremento de la población reclusa en España entre 1996-2006: Diagnóstico y remedios". Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica: REIC, (6), 2.
• Cid, J. (2009). "Is imprisonment criminogenic? A comparative study of recidivism rates between prison and suspended prison sanctions". European Journal of Criminology, 6(6), 459-480.
• Cid, J. y Martí, J. (2012). "Turning points and returning points: Understanding the role of family ties in the process of desistance". European Journal of Criminology, 9(6), 603-620.