Witchcraft Accusations and Wrongful Convictions in Brazil
Date: 03 June 2026
Time: 9:00 am -10:00 am BST; 06:00 pm - 07:00 pm AEST
Venue: Online - click here
About Our Event
Join us for our next INAWARA webinar when we welcome Pedro Haram Colucci to speak about witchcraft accusations and wrongful convictions in Brazil. Pedro is well placed to understand the discriminatory processes in action in the criminal justice system in Brazil - his master’s research focused on witchcraft accusations as catalysts for wrongful convictions in Brazil, examining their role in evidentiary distortions and moral panics. Furthermore, for his PhD, he is researching the deployment of facial recognition systems in public security and the production of algorithmic bias. He pays particular attention to the many discriminatory outcomes and structural risks to due process and criminal justice that have taken place.
About Our Speaker
Pedro Haram Colucci is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of São Paulo (FDRP-USP). He holds an MSc in Law from FDRP-USP, funded by a CAPES fellowship, and currently serves as a research supervisor in Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminal Policy at the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences (IBCCRIM). He is affiliated with the Law, Psychology and Interdisciplinarity Research Group (DIPSIN/USP).
