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We have a lot to celebrate at the VRC this month. The American Society of Criminology's Division of Experimental Criminology recently awarded the Jerry Lee Lifetime Achievement Award to our Director, Professor Manuel Eisner. They write: “Professor Manuel Eisner certainly deserves this year’s Jerry Lee Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding …

Call for expressions of interest Special issue: Understanding the Developmental Dynamics of Mental Health and OffendingThe Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology is seeking expressions of interest for papers that advance the understanding of the complex bi-directional links between mental health and offending (including delinquency, b…

The Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology has announced its new co-Editors-in-Chief - Prof Darrick Jolliffe - Head of the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich, and our Director, Prof Manuel Eisner, University of Cambridge, taking over from Prof Tara McGee and Prof Paul Mazerolle from 1 July 2021.  The Journal seeks …

Prof David Farrington OBE, Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Dr Hannah Gaffney, Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, teamed up with the Campbell Collaboration to conduct a review of research evidence on existing approaches to prevent youth violence on beh…

“A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime” - published in Nature Human Behaviour - discusses the first set of findings of our collaborative research project Crime during the Covid-19 Crisis: A Global Analysis, which collected data in 27 cities in 23 countries through a network of researchers from universities a…

Our research team has been very productive and here is the latest overview of papers by VRC researchers and its international collaborators. To find out more about the projects that have inspired and provided data for these papers, please visit our Research page.COVID-19Leos-Toro Cesar, Ribeaud Denis, Bechtiger Laura, Steinhoff Annekatrin, Nivette …

Dr Hannah Gaffney co-authored Effectiveness of school‐based programs to reduce bullying perpetration and victimization: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis with her PhD supervisors Dr Maria Ttofi and Professor David Farrington.Bullying emerged as an important research topic in the 1980s and is associated with many negatives outcomes for …

Our PhD student Klea Ramaj, supervised by Prof Manuel Eisner, published a research article entitled The Aftermath of Human Trafficking: Exploring the Albanian Victims’ Return, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration Challenges in the Journal of Human Trafficking. The article is based on her MPhil dissertation, supervised by Dr Paolo Campana, an expert on…

The VRC carries out interdisciplinary research on the causes, prevention and consequences of interpersonal violence in national and international societies. In the third of a series of profiles of VRC researchers, we introduce our Lecturer in Criminology and Complex Networks, Dr Paolo Campana - who investigates criminal activities, gang violence an…

As we step into Spring, here are the latest papers published by the VRC team and its international collaborators. To find out more about the projects that have inspired and provided data for these papers, please visit our Research page.Mental health, aggression and bullying - women, children and adolescentsFoley, S., Hughes, C., Murray, A.L. [.....…

The VRC carries out interdisciplinary research on the causes, prevention and consequences of interpersonal violence in national and international societies. In the second of a series of profiles of VRC researchers, we introduce our Research Associate Dr Sara Valdebenito, who has been working on the Evidence of Better Life Study (EBLS) and also inve…

Five sites of the EBLS Foundational Study are about to begin a third wave of data collection in the coming weeks. This will include Valenzuela (Philippines), Hue (Vietnam), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Koforidua (Ghana) and Kingston (Jamaica). This collaborative effort will be mostly conducted via telephone-based interviews when the child is around the a…

Here is a selection of the latest publications by our researchers and members of our international research networks, z-proso and EBLS, on the topics of violence against children and maternal wellbeing in Vietnam.Youth Behaviour & Violence against ChildrenAmy Nivette, Denis Ribeaud, Aja Murray, Annekatrin Steinhoff, Laura Bechtiger, Urs Hepp, Lilly…

The VRC has a team of researchers carrying out interdisciplinary research on the causes, prevention and consequences of interpersonal violence in national and international societies. Our research clusters include: Violence across the Life Course; Violence, Non-violent Offending and Mental Health; Institutional Violence, Terrorism and Criminal Netw…

Cambridge ESRC DTP Interdisciplinary Studentship 2021: Pathways from Parental Exposure to Violence to Problems in Early Child Development: A Focus on Low and Middle-income CountriesApplication Deadline: 7 January 2021If a project code is required, please use IS2(2021)The University of Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership [DTP] is pleased to…