Fabro, K. A. (2025). Glass eel smuggling booms despite bans, leaving species on the brink. Mongabay. Available at: https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/glass-eel-smuggling-booms-despite-bans-leaving-species-on-the-brink/ 

Tarragona Ràdio. (11 December 2024). Arran de Mar [Radio Program]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/live/dk1rlXkvP_c (Accessed: 12 December 2024).

Newsletter of the American Society of Criminology Division of International Criminology (2024). DIC Award Winners 2023: Available at: https://t.co/v1skNBkvlx (Accessed 8 April 2024).

Tarragona Ràdio. (3 April 2024). Arran de Mar [Radio Program]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnFOQDv1-Ww&ab_channel=TarragonaR%C3%A0dio 

Newsletter of the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice (2023). Graduate Student Spotlight: Mònica Pons Hernández. Available at: https://divisiononcriticalcriminology.com/wp-content/uploads/Newsletter-Fall-2023.docx.pdf (Accessed 7 January 2024). 

Diari Digital Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2023). Mònica Pons, investigadora predoctoral de la URV, rep dos premis de la Societat Americana de Criminologia per la seva recerca sobre el tràfic d’angula. Available at: https://diaridigital.urv.cat/monica-pons-investigadora-predoctoral-urv-premis-societat-americana-criminologia-trafic-angula/ (Accessed 27 November 2023). 

Universitat Rovira i Virgili 

Master's Degree in Environmental Law

Spring 2024                15675110        Environmental Criminal Law (1 ECTS)

                                    15675118        Environmental Law Clinic (service learning) (3 ECTS)

                                    15675301        Master's Thesis (2 ECTS)

Spring 2023                15675110        Environmental Criminal Law (1 ECTS)

                                    15675118        Environmental Law Clinic (service learning) (4,2 ECTS)

                                    15675301        Master's Thesis (0’8 ECTS)

Institute of Education Sciences (ICE)

Winter 2023                02RE0085       Qualitative Research Practice in the field of legal sciences

Guest Lectures

28/04/2025                  Master’s Degree in Criminology and Forensic Sciences. Universidad Pablo Olavide, Sevilla, Spain. El tráfico de residuos plásticos en España.

31/01/2023                  Inter-University Master’s Degree in Public Law - Transparency, Integrity and Public Corruption, Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain: Lobbies, conflictos de intereses, tráfico de influencias y delincuencia estatal-corporativa.

11/11/2022                  BSc Criminology - Metodologias de Investigação e Epistemologia I, Universidade do Porto, Portugal: Choosing a qualitative approach to research glass eel trafficking: the perks (and cons) of doing fieldwork.

11/3/2022                    BSc Criminology - Green Criminology, University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom: Glass eel trafficking in Spain: an overview and lessons learned.

4/26/2022                    BSc Criminology & Double Degree in Criminology and Law - Universidad de Extremadura, Spain: Puertas giratorias, eléctricas, y delincuencia estatal-corporativa.

1/26/2022                    Inter-University Master's Degree in Public Law - Transparency, Integrity and Public Corruption, Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain: Lobbies, conflictos de intereses, tráfico de influencias y delincuencia estatal-corporativa.

3/8/2021                      BSc Criminology - Modes of Criminal Behaviour, University of Barcelona, Spain: Green Criminology: Introducció a l’estudi de danys mediambientals.

Journal Articles 

Pons-Hernandez, M. (2025). Plastic Waste Trafficking in Spain: Examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved. Trends in Organized Crime. http://www.doi.org/10.1007/s12117-025-09577-1

Rubio-Ramon, G. & Pons-Hernandez, M. (2025). The paradox of saving fish by eating them: food crime at the intersection of green criminology and political ecology. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-025-09639-8 

Pons-Hernandez, M. & Petrossian, G. (2025). Using Crime Script Analysis to Unveil Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing of Glass Eels. Marine Policy, 173, 106569.

Hutchinson, A., Alonso, A. I., Pons-Hernandez, M. (2024). Hungry for more: Examining how cultures of increasing demand drive the decline of the European eel. International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3564

Pons-Hernandez, M. (2024). Inside the slippery world of glass eel trafficking: Lessons learned from Spain to prevent the illegal trade of European eels. European Journal of Criminology, 21(6), 908-928.

Pons-Hernandez, M. (2024). “Missing the Trees for the Forest?” An Analysis of the Harms to European Eels Caused by Their Trafficking and Trade. Critical Criminology, 32(1), 77-95.

Pons-Hernandez, M. (2023). El Tráfico de Especies Silvestres en España: una exploración desde la criminología verde crítica no-especista. Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica, 21(2), e815.

Pons-Hernandez, M., Wyatt, T. & Hall, A. (2022). Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom. Trends in Organized Crime, 26(3), 308-328.

Pons-Hernandez, M. (2022). Power(ful) Connections: exploring the revolving doors phenomenon as a form of state-corporate crime. Critical Criminology, 30(2), 305-320.

Davies, P., Pons-Hernandez, M., & Wyatt, T. (2019). Economy Versus Environment: How Corporate Actors Harm Both. Critical Criminology, 27(1), 85-99.

Book Chapters

Pons-Hernandez, M. & Marteache, N. (Forthcoming). Untangling the Net: Addressing Data Challenges in Studying IUU Fishing in Spain. In W. Moreto (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on Environmental Crime and Harm Prevention. 

Pons-Hernandez, M. (2026). “‘Denial of Injury’ and ‘Denial of the Victim’ in the (Illegal) Wildlife Trade: the case of the European eel”. In F. Massé, R. Wong, A. Hübschele, L. Gutierrez & T. Wyatt (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime.

Pons-Hernandez, M. & Brisman, A. (2025). “Internal Souths” in Affluent Countries of the Global North: A Study of European Eel Fishing and Consumption. In K. Carrington, R. Cavalcanti, D. Fonseca, R. Hogg, J. Scott & V. Vegh Weis, Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South (2^nd Ed.).

Pons-Hernandez, M. (2025). Wildlife Trafficking in Spain: Causes, Consequences and Future Considerations. In D. Siegel and D. van Uhm (Eds.), Green Crimes and Ecojustice. London: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. 

Pons-Hernandez, M. (2025). Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. R. White (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime, p. 94-98. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803923833.00021

Pons-Hernandez, M. (2024). Habitat Loss. In H. Pontell (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.764 

Pons-Hernandez, M. (2021). Criminología del cambio climático: ¿una fragmentación del campo? In E. Casado Patricio, M. Izco Rincon, & A. Paez Merida (Eds.) Forjando nuevos caminos: investigaciones noveles en criminología. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 241-248.

2025-2028: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034309 Shaping European Research Leaders for Marine Sustainability (SEAS). Project tile: “Protecting Marine Biodiversity: State-Corporate Crime as the Root of Unsustainable Exploitation”.

2023-2026: European Biodiversity Partnership (Biodiversa+). Project title: Transboundary governance models of biodiversity protection: case studies for an enhanced protection of natural resources in Europe (TRANSNATURE) – Co-I (Universitat Rovia i Virgili). 

2021-2025: Project d'I+D+i -RTI Plan A (PID2020-11555). Project title: Climate change and plastic waste: legal challenges of the circular economy as a paradigm for the protection of planetary health and justice (JustCircular) – working group (Universitat Rovira i Virgili – Criminal Law). 

2015    Pons-Hernández, M. & Petrossian, G. Applying Crime Script Analysis to Eel Trafficking: Examining Smuggling Networks and Enforcement Challenges [Conference Presentation]. Eurocrim 2025 - European Society of Criminology (Athens, 03-06 September 2025).

2024    Pons-Hernández, M. El Tráfico de Residuos Plásticos en España [Conference Presentation]. IV Congreso Español de Criminología. Universidad de Extremadura. (Cáceres, 16-18 October 2024).

2024    Pons-Hernández, M & Petrossian, G. Using Crime Script Analysis to Understand Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing of Glass Eels: A Case Study from Spain [Conference Presentation]. Eurocrim 2024 - European Society of Criminology (Bucharest, 11-14 September 2024).

2024    Pons-Hernández, M. Techniques of Neutralisation: Denying the Injury and the Victim in the Wildlife Trade [Conference Presentation]. British Society of Criminology Annual Meeting (Glasgow, 11-12 July 2024).

2024    Pons-Hernandez, M. Researching the Welfare of Individual Eels Affected by Trafficking and Trade. [Lightning Talk]. Wild Animal Welfare Summit, New York University (New York, 21-22 June 2024). 

2024    Pons-Hernández, M. Dando Voz a Quienes no la Tienen: Un Enfoque Visual en Criminología Verde [Conference Presentation]. Congreso Internacional Desigualdades, Criminología y Política Criminal – Universitat de Girona (Girona, 20-21 May 2024).

2023    Pons-Hernández, M. Toward Ecocentric Protection: Assessing the Efficacy of Legal Measures for Safeguarding the European Eel from Extinction [Conference Presentation]. Greening Justice: Intersections of law, crime, and victimology – Liverpool Hope University (Online, 6 December 2023).

2023    Pons-Hernández, M. Glass eel trafficking in Spain: an intersection of crime and culture threatening species survival [Conference Presentation]. 78th American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, 15-18 November 2023).

2023    Pons-Hernández, M. “Missing the trees for the forest?” An exploration of the harms to European eels within their trade and traffic. [Conference Presentation]. Eurocrim 2023 - European Society of Criminology (Florence, 6-9 September 2023).

2023    Pons-Hernández, M. Naturaleza del tráfico de vida silvestre en España y papel que desempeña en el mercado global. [Conference Presentation]. V SIMPOSIO: Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica (Valencia, 6 &7 July 2023).

2023    Pons-Hernández, M. The illegal trade in European eels: how is the legislation that governs their trade failing to protect the species? [Conference Presentation]. VIII Tarragona International Environmental Law Colloquium (Tarragona, 1 & 2 June 2023).

2023    Pons-Hernández, M. Wildlife Trafficking in Spain: a green criminology exploration. [Conference Presentation]. Green Crimes and Ecojustice Conference 2023 – Utrecht University (Utrecht, 25 & 26 May 2023).

2022    Pons-Hernández, M. Glass eel trafficking in Spain: an intersection of crime and culture threatening species survival. [Conference Presentation]. Eurocrim 2022 - European Society of Criminology (Málaga, 21-24 September 2022).

2022    Pons-Hernández, M. Introduction: Green Criminology in Spain. [Conference Presentation]. Environmental Crime & Gender – Eurocrim 2022 (Málaga, 21 September 2022).

2021    Pons-Hernández, M. La Concepción del Daño Social y Ambiental desde la Criminología Verde [Roundtable]. XIII Congreso Español de Criminología: Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica (Sevilla, 25-26 November 2021).

2021    Pons-Hernández, M. Power(ful) Connexions in the revolving doors phenomenon: state-corporate crime and climate change in-action [Conference Presentation]. THINKClima - Lobbying for (in)action: Climate Emergence, Interest Groups and Denial (University Pompeu Fabra) (Online, 26-27 May 2021).

2021    Pons-Hernández, M. The ‘Revolving Doors’ Phenomenon, a Blameworthy Crime: an exploration of its environmental and social impacts. British Society of Criminology - Green Criminology Research Network (Online, 27 - 28 January 2021).

2020    Pons-Hernández, M. Criminología del cambio climático: ¿una fragmentación del campo? [Conference Presentation]. II Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Criminología. Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica – REJIC (Málaga, 13-14 February 2020)

2023    Student Paper Award, American Society of Criminology, Division on International Criminology - 1st Place. 

2023    Graduate Student Paper Award, American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice. 

2022    Young Researcher Award, Spanish Society of Criminological Research (SEIC).