Dr Justice Tankebe has published a paper entitled Cooperation with the Police Against Corruption: Exploring the Roles of Legitimacy, Deterrence and Collective Action Theories in The British Journal of Criminology . Corruption is a global problem. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) identified it as a key...

The Real Gold Standard: Measuring Counterfactual Worlds That Matter Most to Policy . What research evidence do we need to inform policy about what works? Are experiments the ‘Gold Standard’ for establishing causal effects that matter for important policy goals in education, welfare, prevention and policing? Programme...

The VRC and its affiliated international researchers published several papers in the first months of 2019. Here is a selection on different topics. Child victimisation Childhood Predictors of Violent Victimization at Age 17 Years: The Role of Early Social Behavioral Tendencies by Margit Averdijk, Denis Ribeaud and Manuel...

The VRC, who is going to be five years old in September, has issued its latest activity report, covering two academic years, 2016-17 and 2017-8. This follows the previous report, covering the academic year 2015-16. Both reports are available for download on this page (click here ). Our director, Prof Manuel Eisner, writes...