Vanessa Azevedo (ORCID: 0000-0003-4850-258X) has a PhD in Applied Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. Currently, she works as a researcher in the project “Looking at Crime: Communities and Physical Spaces” (LookCrim - PTDC/DIR-DCP/28120/2017), financed by National Funds through Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She is also a researcher at the Permanent Observatory on Crime and Violence (OPVC) hosted at University Fernando Pessoa (Porto, Portugal). Her research interests include life experiences (both positive and negative), the psychological impact of life experiences, victimology, stress, urban crime, and policing, and she has authored several international and national publications on these topics.