Miguel Basto-Pereira, Ph.D., is the Founder and Director of the Master's in Forensic Psychology at Ispa – Instituto Universitário. He is a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Ispa and a Researcher at the William James Center for Research. Since 2024, he has contributed to the strategic direction of the William James Center for Research as a member of its governing board. He holds master's degrees in Psychology and Statistics, as well as a European Doctorate in Applied Psychology (Justice Field), awarded in 2017 for his research on juvenile delinquency and persistent criminality. He has published 44 papers (H-index: 19, G-Scholar) in high-impact journals (e.g., British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, Child Abuse & Neglect), focusing primarily on Criminal Psychology, Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, Child Maltreatment, and Risk Assessment of Justice-Involved Populations. He has also been an invited speaker at several scientific meetings in Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. He has extensive experience supervising and coordinating research projects, including doctoral and master's students and cross-national studies. He was the Principal Investigator of the FCT-funded project ChainPrevent – The Chain of Events Underlying the Development and Persistence of Antisocial Behaviour: Moving Forward in Tailored Crime Prevention Strategies (2022.03898.PTDC), co-led by Prof. David Farrington. He is also the founder and lead coordinator of the International Study of Pro/Antisocial Behavior in Young Adults, a cross-cultural longitudinal initiative launched in 2018, which examines the universality of developmental risk and protective factors for antisocial behaviour. This initiative has led to several publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals. In 2023, he received the Outstanding Early Career Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 52). Currently, his research focuses on the sequences of events leading to antisocial behaviour and social marginalization, with a particular emphasis on the trajectories underlying the cycle of violence—a topic he began exploring during his stays with Dr. David Farrington at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with numerous researchers as a co-author of scientific papers. In his Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequently occurring terms include: Juvenile Delinquency, Criminal Careers, Forensic Psychology, Child Maltreatment, Psychosocial Adjustment, Youth Offending, Mental Health, Psychometrics, Clinical Psychology, Childhood Problems, and Psychological Intervention.