Research Teams
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Biology of criminal behavior - causes and consequences
Biological factors such as genes, hormones, physiological functions, and brain structure and function are important to understanding criminal behavior...
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Children's living conditions and well-being (BLIVA)
Children's living conditions and well-being (BLIVA) is a multi-disciplinary research group focused on mechanisms that drive children’s positive development a...
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Civic engagement and political participation
This theme has a focus on how citizen engagement and political participation develop, are organized and communicated. The theoretical basis is in political...
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Ageing
The main challenge in the field of neurocognitive ageing is to understand the brain mechanisms that might underlie age differences in cognitive performance o...
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Criminal Law
The research at Örebro University on criminal law and criminal procedure could be characterized as diverse with strong international features. One of the...
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Development of criminal behavior across the lifespan
Criminal behavior has negative consequences for society at large in the form of, among other things, socio-economic losses but also in the form of human...
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Emotion and behavior
Emotion and Behavior studies the fundamental psychological mechanisms underlying both mental and physical illness. Emotion regulation is a common denominator...
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European Law Research
The field of European law has been one of the key areas of research for the topic of Law at Örebro university ever since the research activities started in...
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Family and parenting
Parents and the family play an important, if not the most important, role for children. They can offer a positive context for children to develop into...
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Feminist violence studies
The research team engages with violence and violations from a feminist and intersectional perspective. We situate violence and violations in social, politica...