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Read more at: Prof Eisner hosts Body-worn Cameras in Policing webinar

Prof Eisner hosts Body-worn Cameras in Policing webinar

3 December 2020

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...

Read more at: Our annual report is available to download!

Our annual report is available to download!

29 October 2020

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-...

Read more at: Papers on crime, delinquency and bullying PLUS free webinar on 17/11

Papers on crime, delinquency and bullying PLUS free webinar on 17/11

8 October 2020

Crime and Delinquency P. 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...

Read more at: Overview of publications on organised crime, violence prevention and bullying

Overview of publications on organised crime, violence prevention and bullying

9 September 2020

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...

Read more at: VRC Violence Prevention Report presented at YEF

VRC Violence Prevention Report presented at YEF

14 July 2020

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...

Read more at: EBLS update: activity report

EBLS update: activity report

9 July 2020

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...

Read more at: VRC during COVID-19: introducing two new research pages

VRC during COVID-19: introducing two new research pages

23 June 2020

From March 2020 the VRC has been operating remotely due to lockdown constraints. Research themes linked to the pandemic were shared through virtual 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...

Read more at: Latest papers: child violence prevention and covid compliance

Latest papers: child violence prevention and covid compliance

28 May 2020

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

Read more at: Violence in the Pandemic - HFG Research and Policy in Brief

Violence in the Pandemic - HFG Research and Policy in Brief

29 April 2020

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...

Read more at: Latest papers on teen aggression, domestic violence and birth cohort studies

Latest papers on teen aggression, domestic violence and birth cohort studies

15 April 2020

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 aggression Aimee Neaverson, Aja Louise Murray, Denis Ribeaud and Manuel Eisner authored A Longitudinal...

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