Amber Beckley
Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal SciencesEmail: YW1iZXIuYmVja2xleTtvcnUuc2U=
Phone: +46 19 302269
Room: L2203
About Amber Beckley
About Amber L. Beckley, PhD, Docent
Amber is a criminologist whose research focuses on how developmental factors influence criminal offending and victimization across the life-course. Her current research focuses on risks for and consequences of criminal collaborations.
During 2024-2025, Amber, along with her colleagues Anne Sofie Tegner Anker (Rockwool Foundation), Brittany Evans (Örebro University), Antti Latvala (University of Helsinki), Torbjørn Skardhamar (University of Oslo) will host a series of meetings at the Institute for Futures Studies on biospychosocial criminological theory and critique in the Nordic region, funded by the Nordic Research Council for Criminology.
Research projects
Amber is currently co-principal invesitgator for 4C – The Swedish Consortium for the study of Contemporary Criminal Collaboration, along with Amir Rostami (lead-pi) and Hernan Mondani (co-pi), funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Amber was the principal investigator on the project "Childhood psychosocial and environmental predictors of crime and victimization across life.", funded by a 2.875 mil SEK grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Amber was a co-investigator on the project, "What happend in Sweden over the last 40 years?", funded by a 4.9 million SEK grant from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare (Forte). The project focuses on how immigration has affected the development of crime in Sweden over the last 40 years.
Teaching
Amber supervises theses at the bachelor and master level. Amber teaches in the course Kunskapsbaserad brottsprevention och trygghetsfrämjande arbete.
Contact
email (preferred): amber.beckley@oru.se
telephone: 019-30 22 69, times: Mondays 10:00-11:00, Tuesdays 9:00-10:00
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Hodgins, S. , Sivertsson, F. , Beckley, A. , Luigi, M. & Carlsson, C. (2024). The burden for clinical services of persons with an intellectual disability or mental disorder convicted of criminal offences: A birth cohort study of 14,605 persons followed to age 64. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 1-10. [BibTeX]
- Hodgins, S. , Sivertsson, F. , Beckley, A. , Luigi, M. & Carlsson, C. (2024). The burden for clinical services of persons with an intellectual disability or mental disorder convicted of criminal offences: A birth cohort study of 14,605 persons followed to age 64. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 78 (5), 411-420. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Kuikka, S. , Sivertsson, F. & Sarnecki, J. (2022). The Stockholm life-course project: investigating offending and non-lethal severe violent victimization. Nordic Journal of Criminology, 23 (1), 61-82. [BibTeX]
- Filser, A. , Barclay, K. , Beckley, A. , Uggla, C. & Schnettler, S. (2021). Are skewed sex ratios associated with violent crime? A longitudinal analysis using Swedish register data. Evolution and human behavior, 42 (3), 212-222. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Palmer, R. H. , Rocque, M. & Whitfield, K. E. (2019). Health and criminal justice system involvement among African American siblings. SSM - Population Health, 7. [BibTeX]
- Rocque, M. , Beckley, A. & Piquero, A. R. (2019). Psychosocial maturation, race, and desistance from crime. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48 (7), 1403-1417. [BibTeX]
- Barnes, J. C. , Liu, H. , Motz, R. T. , Tanksley, P. T. , Kail, R. , Beckley, A. , Belsky, D. W. , Domingue, B. W. & et al. (2019). The propensity for aggressive behavior and lifetime incarceration risk: A test for gene-environment interaction (G x E) using whole-genome data. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 49. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Caspi, A. , Broadbent, J. , Harrington, H. , Houts, R. M. , Poulton, R. , Ramrakha, S. , Reuben, A. & et al. (2018). Association of childhood blood lead levels with criminal offending. JAMA pediatrics, 172 (2), 166-173. [BibTeX]
- Wertz, J. , Caspi, A. , Belsky, D. W. , Beckley, A. , Arseneault, L. , Barnes, J. C. , Corcoran, D. L. , Hogan, S. & et al. (2018). Genetics and crime: Integrating new genomic discoveries into psychological research about antisocial behavior. Psychological Science, 29 (5), 791-803. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Caspi, A. , Arseneault, L. , Barnes, J. C. , Fisher, H. L. , Harrington, H. , Houts, R. , Morgan, N. & et al. (2018). The developmental nature of the victim-offender overlap. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 4 (1), 24-49. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Weintraub, J. & Jolliffe, D. (2017). Science communication for criminologists. The Criminologist, 42 (5), 5-7. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Caspi, A. , Harrington, H. , Houts, R. M. , Mcgee, T. R. , Morgan, N. , Schroeder, F. , Ramrakha, S. & et al. (2016). Adult-onset offenders: Is a tailored theory warranted?. Journal of criminal justice, 46, 64-81. [BibTeX]
- Moffitt, T. E. & Beckley, A. (2015). Abandon Twin Research? Embrace epigenetic research? Premature advice for criminologists. Criminology (Beverly Hills), 53 (1), 121-126. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. (2015). Age at immigration and crime in Stockholm using sibling comparisons. Social Science Research, 53, 239-251. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. (2015). Deterrence versus marginalization: Evidence from immigrant offending. Race and Justice, 5 (3), 278-300. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Kuja-Halkola, R. , Lundholm, L. , Långström, N. & Frisell, T. (2014). Association of height and violent criminality: results from a Swedish total population study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 43 (3), 835-842. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. (2013). Correlates of war? Towards an understanding of nativity-based variation in immigrant offending. European Journal of Criminology, 10 (4), 408-423. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. (2008). Race, masculinity, and boot camp failure. Crime, law and social change, 49 (4), 303-314. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Beckley, A. , Gerrell, M. & Kardell, J. (2022). En inrutad studie för brott och områden: i ljuset av forskning om utländsk bakgrund och brottslighet i Sverige sedan den senare delen av 1900-talet. In: Amir Rostami; Jerzy Sarnecki, Det svenska tillståndet: en antologi om brottsutvecklingen i Sverige (pp. 227-268). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Moffitt, T. E. & Poulton, R. (2021). The dunedin multidisciplinary health and development study: methods of a 40+ year longitudinal study. In: J.C. Barnes; David R. Forde, The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice (pp. 33-42). . John Wiley & Sons. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Kardell, J. & Sarnecki, J. (2015). Immigration and crime in Sweden. In: Sharon Pickering; Julie Ham, Routledge handbook on crime and international migration (pp. 41-54). . Routledge. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Beckley, A. , Rocque, M. , Tuvblad, C. & Piquero, A. (2019). Psychosocial maturation and victimization. Paper presented at American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, United States, November 13-16, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Palmer, R. , Rocque, M. & Whitfield, K. (2017). Health and criminal conviction among African Americans: A twin study. Paper presented at American Society of Criminology, 73rd Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, United States, November 15-18, 2017. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Palmer, R. , Rocque, M. & Whitfield, K. (2017). Health and criminal conviction among African Americans: A twin study. Paper presented at Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, June 19-21, 2017. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. , Caspi, A. , Fisher, H. , Odgers, C. , Wertz, J. , Arseneault, L. & Moffitt, T. E. (2016). Childhood risk factors for adolescent victimization: A discordant twin design. Paper presented at The Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, June 14-16, 2016. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. (2016). Childhood risk factors for adolescent victimization: A discordant twin design. Paper presented at The American Society of Criminology, 72nd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Los Angeles, United States, November 16-19, 2016. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Beckley, A. (2015). Foreign background and criminal offending among young males in Stockholm. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Stockholm: Department of Criminology, Stockholm University. [BibTeX]
Other
- Beckley, A. (2022). En studie i brott och bostadsområden. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. & Tham, H. (2022). Kriminologiska institutionens remissvar på Ds 2022:12, Vistelseförbud för barn. Kriminologiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. (2017). Lead and Crime. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. (2016). Lead and Crime. [BibTeX]
- Beckley, A. (2015). Carson’s youthful change is a common course. (The News & Observer) [BibTeX]