This page relates to research from 2014-2017. You can now find out about our papers and media coverage in the news section of this website.
Awards
- European Society of Criminology (7 June, 2017): Professor Manuel Eisner, Director and Founder of the Violence Research Centre, has been awarded the European Criminology Award for 2017.
Effects of Teacher–Student Relationships on Adolescent Behavior
- Daily Mail (9 Aug 2016): The power of a good teacher
- The Telegraph (9 Aug 2016): Teachers who inspire children create long-term good behaviour
- Science Daily (9 Aug 2016): Positive teacher-student relationships boost good behavior in teenagers for up to 4 years
- Medical News Today (9 Aug 2016): Positive teacher-student relationships boost good behaviour in teenagers for up to four years
Disclosure of Conflict of Interest for Psychosocial Interventions
- The Times (11 Jan 2015): NHS 'wasted' 4 million Pounds spent on controversial parenting initiatives
- El Pais (11 Dec 2015): Dos tercios de los estudios psicosociales no reconocen sus conflictos de interés
- Medical Journal Australia (30 Nov 2015): Psychosocial COI concerns
- Medical Express (25 Nov 2015): Two-thirds of studies on 'psychosocial' treatments fail to declare conflicts of interest
- preventionaction.org (09 Dec 2015): Playing catch-up: what trials of psychosocial interventions can learn from drugs trials
- Healio (30 Nov 2015): Psychosocial intervention research did not adequately report conflicts of interest
- PsychoCentral (30 Nov 2015): Commercial Counseling Programs often Lack Evidence of Effectiveness, Show Conflict of Interest
- EurekAlert (25 Nov 2015): Two-thirds of studies on 'psychosocial' treatments fail to declare conflicts of interest
- Examiner.com (25 Nov 2015): Psychosocial programs shown to have high rate of conflict of interest
- JJIE (18 Aug 2014): Analysis: Holes in the Evidence for Evidence-Based
Historical Trends in Violence
- The Telegraph (28 Jan 2011): It's tough at the top – how being a monarch is dangerous
- Daily Mail (28 Jan 2011): It's good to be king – or is it? Study finds being a royal is more dangerous than fighting on the frontline
- Foreign Policy (07 Feb 2012): There Will not Be Blood
- Kristeligt Dagblad (in print on 20 July 2014): Historien om Europas stadig fredeligere tilstand
Global Violence Reduction
- Financial Times (26 June 2014): Why Safety Now Trumps Freedom
- Exame.com (06 Aug 2015): Como reduzir os homicídios no mundo? Este especialista conta
- Clarin.com (16 Nov 2015): Inseguridad: no a la "política del tero"
School Bullying
- The Economist (15 Mar 2013): Prevention is the Cure
- The Stockholm Criminology Symposium (5 October 2012): Call for greater efforts on anti-bullying programs
Honour Killings
- BBC (20 June 2013): Many Jordan teenagers 'support honour killings'
- CNN (20 June 2013): Third of teens in Amman, Jordan, condone honor killings, study says
- The Independent (19 June 2013): Teenagers in Jordan support 'honour killings,' research finds
- Phys.org (20 June 2013): Belief that honour killings are 'justified' still prevalent among Jordan's next generation, study shows
- The National (20 June 2013): Half of Jordan teenage boys think 'honour killings' justified: study
- Al Arabiya News (20 June 2013): Jordan teens think 'honor killings' justified, study says
WHO and University of Cambridge Global Violence Reduction Conference 2014
- The Times (article appeared in print on 18 Sept 2014, also available online with subscription): Why Safety Now Trumps Freedom
- Research Horizons, Research Magazine of the University of Cambridge (article appeared in print on 25 Oct 2014, also available online): Ending Violence
- The Daily Mail (18 Sept 2014): Murder rate in global violence hotspots plunges 40% in 15 years as policing improves
- El Mundo (19 Sept 2014): 30 años para reducir a la mitad las tasas de violencia
- O Globo (18 Sept 2014): Taxas de homicídio mundiais podem cair à metade em 30 anos
- Opovo (22 Sept 2014): Homicídios em queda no mundo. E aqui?
- Lenta.ru (19 Sept 2014): Число убийств в России за 15 лет сократилось минимум на 40 процентов
medicalnewstoday.com (20 Sept 2014): Experts predict reduction in global violence - news.am (19 Sept 2014): World violence rates can be cut in half by 2040
- World News Report (20 Sept 2014): Experts predict reduction in global violence
- west-info.eu (22 Sept 2014): Violence could be halved in 30 years, say experts
- highbeam.com (18 Sept 2014): Global Violence Rates Could Be Halved in Just 30 Years, Say Leading Experts
- laboratoryequipment.com (19 Sept 2014): Global Violence Could Be Halved in 30 Years
- tvciencia.pt (19 Sept 2014): ONU: Afinal o mundo está menos violento
- soudapaz.org (23 Sept 2014): Sou da Paz discute o futuro da redução da violência global em Cambridge
- radiohorn.hn (23 Sept 2014): Violencia en América Latina se ha incrementado
- agronmexico.com (25 Sept 2014): Disminuirá Violencia con Política Anticriminal
- crimerussia.ru (19 Sept 2014): Число убийств в России за 15 лет сократилось минимум на 40 процентов
- newsland.com (19 Sept 2014): Число убийств в России за 15 лет сократилось на 40 процентов