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The Swedish Government decided on the 21 August 2025 to award Professor Emeritus Per-Olof H. Wikström the Medal of Reward in Gold of the Eighth Size with the inscription Illis quorum meruere labores ("To those whose deeds deserve it") for his many years of significant contributions to criminological research. The Illis quorum meruere labores medal …

CAC researchers received several prestigious awards at the 2024 European Society of Criminology (ESC) Annual Meeting in Bucharest. You can learn more about their awards here.CAC Founder and Director Professor Per-Olof Wikström, Emeritus Professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology at the University of Cambridge, received the 2024 ESC Europ…

Character, Circumstances, and Criminal Careersby Per-Olof H. Wikstrom, Kyle Treiber, and Gabriela D. Roman is the latest book on the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), joining Breaking Rules (Wikstrom et al. 2012) as part of Oxford University Press's Clarendon Studies in Criminology.Why do young people engage in acts…