Rosa Del Olmo, born in Barcelona, daughter of a judge of the Republic and a leader of the Communist Party. He studied sociology at the University of Wisconsin (USA), he graduated in Criminology, University of Cambridge and earned his PhD in Social Sciences at the Central University of Venezuela. There he taught, and at universities in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States.He worked at the Ministry of Justice of Venezuela in various positions. She was director of the Institute of Criminal Science and Criminology Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the Central University of Venezuela. He later served as director of the Foundation José Félix Ribas (research, prevention and treatment of drug abuse), under the Ministry of the Family of Venezuela.We have certainly an idea of the relationship. But surely dear Professor Cabral Ortega met and first addressed the Venezuelan researcher in the historic First Seminar on Comparative Research Project Violence in Latin America, Quito, 1976.His publications in journals are huge; in 1972, offered his critical view of criminological research in Venezuela, in the journal Criminology Relationship, Valencia, from June to December; and in the same environment, the ideological conflict in criminology (1972). He began publishing his essays and lecture: Current issues in criminology, in the Yearbook of the Institute of Criminal Science and Criminology No. 6. Caracas, 1974-1975; The drug, sociopolitical at the Central University of Venezuela, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, 1975; Studies of traffic offenses in Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela Central University, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, 1978; Criminological rupture, which is a collection of works by the authors, which was published by Editions Library, Central University of Venezuela, in 1978. And finally, his essay, hard Cities and urban violence, first published by the magazine New Society, No. 167, in May-June 2000. His death occurred in January 2000 and his remains were scattered in the sea Morrocoy
