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3 January 2019

Jennifer Lavoie, PhD, is currently visiting the Violence Research Center (VRC) at the Institute of Criminology. She joins the VRC team of researchers headed by Professor Manuel Eisner to collaborate on projects tackling children’s violence prevention. Jennifer brings her expertise on children’s deception and concealment. She explains: “The importan…

2 January 2019

VRC collaborator Izabela Zych co-authored a paper entitled A Longitudinal Study on Stability and Transitions Among Bullying Roles with Vicente J. Llorent and Denis Ribeaud, and VRC researchers Maria M. Ttofi,  David P. Farrington and Manuel P. Eisner. The authors wish to thank the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Jacobs Foundation, and the Sw…

19 December 2018

Dr Justice Tankebe, Lecturer in Criminology and member of the Violence Research Centre, co-authored a paper entitled Tracking Procedural Justice in Stop and Search Encounters: Coding Evidence from Body-Worn Video Cameras with former student of the Institute of Criminology's Police Executive Master's, Chief Superintendent Arif Nawaz of Greater Manch…

13 December 2018

Prof Izabela Zych, Associate Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Córdoba (Spain), is visiting the Violence Research Centre for four months.Prof Zych is a member of the international research network of the Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso). She will be working with …

5 December 2018

Three recently published academic papers focus on children's aggressive tendencies and victimisation. Prof Manuel Eisner co-authored the papers with collaborators from different universities, including researchers affiliated to the Violence Research Centre.Developing and Validating an Experience Sampling Measure of Aggression: The Aggression-ES Sca…

30 November 2018

On Wednesday 28 November the VRC launched a new project in the Research section called the London Medieval Murder Map. Prof Manuel Eisner presented the interactive map at a public event on the day. Please visit our YouTube channel for a recording that includes the slides.You will find photos of the event on our social media channels, where we are a…

23 November 2018

On 26 October 2018, a Symposium marked the 15th anniversary of The Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso), hosted by the Jacobs Foundation. Welcome addresses were delivered by Mr. Sandro Giuliani, Managing Director of the Jacobs Foundation and Prof Michael Shanahan, director of the Jacobs Center. Dr Denis Rib…

9 November 2018

On 20 October 2018, the Institute of Criminology was represented at the University's Festival of Ideas by an expert panel event at the Faculty of Law. Entitled Extremes in violence: what can we learn from violent and peaceful societies and places? it investigated why some societies, institutions and places are highly violent, while others succeed t…

1 November 2018

We have always championed collaboration in academic research. If you visit our research page, you will find that our main projects are all based on international collaboration.Prof Manuel Eisner contributed to a joint editorial entitled Violence, Justice, and Health: implications for a multisectoral collaboration. Co-authors were Bandy X. Lee, Maya…

17 October 2018

Prof Manuel Eisner co-authored a paper on adolescent aggression alongside research partners Dr Amy Nivette, Dr Alex Sutherland and Dr Joseph Murray. Entitled Sex differences in adolescent physical aggression: Evidence from sixty-three low-and middle-income countries, the study focuses on two hypotheses: 1) sex differences increase with societal gen…

11 October 2018

On Friday 5 October we welcomed prospective PhD and Mphil students as part of induction week. We displayed research posters visualising the studies carried out at the Institute. The Violence Research Centre (VRC) had three posters. You can find out more about our research by visiting this page. After the event, the posters were hung outsides our of…

3 October 2018

Dr Paolo Campana, a criminology expert part of the Violence Research Centre (VRC), focuses on child trafficking in a paper published in Nature Sustainability, entitled Unravelling Child Trafficking Routes."The sixteenth Sustainable Development Goal points at the need to reduce human trafficking victims. [...] What we know about trafficking routes a…

26 September 2018

VRC lecturer Dr Tankebe co-authored a paper entitled CORRUPTION INTENTIONS AMONG PROSPECTIVE ELITES IN GHANA: AN ECONOMY OF ESTEEM, published in the International Criminal Justice Review. Co-authors were Susanne Karstedt and Sarah Adu-Poku. The paper focuses on corruption in the police and among elites in Ghana using three main frameworks: kinship,…

20 September 2018

The Graduate Admissions website publishes deadlines for all types of postgraduate degrees at the University of Cambridge. The deadline for Michaelmas 2019 for the full-time PhD course in Criminology (October 2019 start) is 31/5/2019. However, if you require funding, there are earlier deadlines to consider. You can get the funding information here. …

13 September 2018

Disaggregating Between- and Within-Classroom Variation in Student Behavior: A Multilevel Factor Analysis of Teacher Ratings of Student Prosociality and Aggression is a new paper by VRC members Aja Louise Murray, Ingrid Obsuth, Manuel Eisner and Denis Ribeaud. The paper analyses data from Switzerland and takes account of teachers' perceptions of stu…