Teresa Pereira

Teresa Pereira

Ph.D. Student
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Teresa Pereira is a  Ph.D. student in Developmental Psychology. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Psychological Sciences and her master’s degree in Psychology of Deviant Behavior and Justice from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. Her main research interests focus on developmental trajectories and antisocial patterns among individuals who have committed crimes. She is currently a Tutor at Ispa, where she teaches “Métodos de Avaliação II”, and a research assistant at the “UNI_R: Resposta Integrada na Promoção da Saúde Mental no Ensino Superior” project of APPsyCI – Applied Psychology Research Center Capabilities & Inclusion of Ispa – Instituto Universitário, funded under the Mental Health Promotion Program in Higher Education, promoted by DGES – Directorate-General for Higher Education. 



Supervised at WJCR by: Miguel Basto Pereira

Main publications

Pereira, T., Oliveira, C., & Basto-Pereira, M. (2025). Exploring the Factor Structure of Criminogenic Cognitions in Incarcerated Males: Psychometric Evaluation of the Criminogenic Cognitions Scale (CCS). European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 15(3), 27. doi: 10.3390/ejihpe15030027
Pereira, T., & Basto-Pereira, M. (2025). As trajetórias desenvolvimentais no centro da prevenção do crime: Uma proposta para o futuro dos Sistemas de Justiça. In Santos, M., Cardoso, C., & Santos, G. (Eds.), Perspetivas desenvolvimentais da delinquência juvenil: Teoria, práticas e avaliação. Pactor. ISBN: 978-989-693-191-9
Pereira, T., Basto-Pereira, M., Jolliffe, D., & Farrington, D. (2024). Developmental Sequences of Events Leading to Offending and Persistence in Crime: A Review of Criminological Theories. Oral communication presented at International Conference on Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, Lisbon, Portugal.