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On 8 December 2020, Prof Manuel Eisner was among the speakers of the 2020 Early Intervention Foundation's (EIF) National Conference. He participated to a breakout session on Youth crime and Violence with Reshard Auladin (National Crime Agency), Peter Babudu (Youth Endowment Fund), Christine Geeson (Suffolk County Council) and Rachel Coffey (Home Of…

On Wednesday 2 December 2020, Prof Manuel Eisner was one of the speakers at a WHO webinar entitled Social Determinants of Health Webinar: COVID-19, social determinants and violence, hosted by Dr Naoko Yamamoto, WHO Assistant Director-General for Healthier Populations and moderated by Dr Etienne Krug, Director, WHO Social Determinants of Health Depa…

On Tuesday 1 December at 4pm, the VRC hosted an Institute of Criminology’s webinar entitled Body-worn Cameras in Policing: the Evidence on what Works with partner organisations the Campbell Collaboration and Arnold Ventures.Prof Eisner joined Dr Peter Neyroud, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and co-chair of the Campbell Collaborat…

Our annual report is out! It has been a challenging but fruitful year for the VRC and its affiliated researchers, who have been collaborating on on-going international studies and partnered with us to launch new projects to analyse and understand the effects of Covid-19 on interpersonal violence, crime and societal well-being.From March 2020 until …

Crime and DelinquencyP. Campana and F. Varese (2020), “Studying organized crime networks: data sources boundaries and the limits of structural measures”. Social Networks Network studies of organized crime (OC) normally explore two key relational issues: the internal structure of groups and the interactions among groups. The paper first discusses i…

During lockdown, the VRC has continued nurturing its links with national and international research networks, collaborating on a variety of publications. Here is a fresh selection of papers from the VRC team, Institute of Criminology’s researchers and affiliated researchers from other academic institutions. Research topics include organised crime a…

Early in July, the VRC report Effective violence prevention: An overview of the international evidence was presented, alongside the EBLS foundational report at a Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) expert meeting on Youth Violence by Prof Manuel Eisner and VRC affiliated researcher Dr Aja Murray (University of Edinburgh). The presentation was entitled The C…

Evidence for Better Lives (EBLS) is an innovative birth-cohort study in low- and middle-income countries across the world. Between 2018 and 2019, a pilot version, also known as Foundational Study, collected data from 1,208 pregnant women - during the third trimester of pregnancy - living in Ghana, Jamaica, Pakistan, the Philippines, Romania, South …

From March 2020 the VRC has been operating remotely due to lockdown constraints. Research themes linked to the pandemic were shared throughvirtual seminars (webinars) while our network of affiliated researchers continued to collaborate on papers on a variety of themes. In April we started a Covid page to share publications, webinars and other contr…

Our affiliated researchers have published a number of papers on violence prevention topics and well-being. Here is a selection of the latest contributions.BullyingChildhood Risk and Protective Factors as Predictors of Adolescent Bullying Roles by Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington, Vicente J. Llorent, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel P. Eisner, International J…

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) released Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research, a concise report covering implications of Covid-19 for violence prevention research and policy.Our director, Prof Manuel Eisner, and Prof Amy Nivette (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) analysed worldwide data and trends to explore futur…

As we adjust to different ways of living and working during these trying times, here are the latest papers involving our team and researchers affiliated to the VRC, all published in March and April 2020. Adolescent aggressionAimee Neaverson, Aja Louise Murray, Denis Ribeaud and Manuel Eisner authoredA Longitudinal Examination of the Role of Self-Co…

The start of 2020 saw considerable media coverage of two international projects we are associated with, z-proso and sp-proso. These studies link our Centre to researchers all over the world who are passionate about finding out at what stage in a child's development aggressive behaviours can be identified and what are their long-term consequences in…

On Monday 27 January 2020, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the VRC hosted a public lecture by Prof Manuel Eisner entitled Moral Neutralisation of Violence and the Perpetration of Inhumanities. The talk weaved biographical reflections on the link between family experiences and theories on moral disengagement with criminology topics.Prof Eis…

Happy New Year from the VRC! Here is a selection of published papers by members of our team and affiliated researchers in the UK and abroad. These are stored in the University of Cambridge’s Apollo repository.PolicingDoing research with police elites in Ghana - Sowatey, E., & Tankebe, J. (2019)AbstractMuch of our methodological insights from resear…