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Professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
Professor Per-Olof Wikström FBA is Professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology in the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow of Girton College.
He is the director of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), a major ESRC funded research project which aims to advance knowledge about crime causation and prevention. Professor Wikström's main research interests are developing unified theory of the causes of crime (Situational Action Theory), its empirical testing and its application to devising knowledge-based prevention policies.
In 1994, he received the Sellin-Glueck Award for outstanding contributions to international criminology from the American Society of Criminology, in 2002 he was made a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford and in 2010 he was made a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, and in 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
