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Amber L. Beckley, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Örebro University's School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences, Department of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences. Her research focuses on life-course criminology, particularly how developmental factors influence criminal offending and victimization. She is a co-PI on the 4C Consortium studying criminal collaborations in Sweden and leads projects funded by Nordic and Swedish research councils. She teaches courses on evidence-based crime prevention and supervises bachelor/master theses.
Education: PhD in Criminology (2015, Stockholm University), Docent (Swedish postdoc qualification). Her work integrates biosocial theories, using register data and longitudinal studies. Recent projects include analyzing immigrant population dynamics and violent crime in Swedish municipalities, and hosting Nordic biosocial criminology dialogues. She has advised over a dozen graduate students and published widely in journals like JAMA Pediatrics and Nordic Journal of Psychiatry.
Research groups: Development of Criminal Behavior Across the Lifespan, Biopsychosocial Criminology & Psychology. Grants include SEK 2.875 million for childhood predictors of crime and a Forte grant studying immigration's impact on Sweden's crime trends since 1980. She collaborates with international teams from universities in Helsinki, Oslo, and the US.
