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6 September 2018

Nora L. Eisner, Aja L. Murray, Manuel Eisner and Denis Ribeaud published a paper called A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Non-Response and Attrition in Longitudinal Research Using a Real Data Example in the International Journal of Behavioral Development.The data used in this study relates to school children in Switzerland, interviewed in seven …

5 September 2018

Professor Catherine L. Ward - from the Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa - is visiting the Violence Research Centre this month. She is part of the Evidence for Better Lives Study (EBLS) Consortium, which runs the project. EBLS has at its core an eight-site longitudinal cohort study of child development. The sites are m…

5 September 2018

The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals include ending all forms of violence against children. Good parenting practices have been identified as a protective factor that promotes children’s health and development in low-income countries, where child maltreatment is common. Yulia Shenderovich, Manuel Eisner, Lucie Cluver, Jenny Doubt, McKen…

15 August 2018

"Over the past 20 years, a substantial amount of research has shed light on the historical dynamics of interpersonal violence in Europe and the USA. However, there is a continuing massive gap of good research on the historical dynamics of interpersonal violence in other societies. The present book by three experts on crime and criminal justice in t…

8 August 2018

The NHS defines Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a behavioural disorder that includes symptoms such as inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. Doctors believe that symptoms of ADHD tend to be noticed at an early age and may become more noticeable when a child's circumstances change, such as when they start school.Researc…

2 August 2018

Our PhD student Hannah Gaffney co-authored a paper on cyberbullying - alongside Prof David P. Farrington, University of Cambridge, Prof Dorothy L. Espelage, University of Florida and Dr Maria M. Ttofi, University of Cambridge - entitled: Are cyberbullying intervention and prevention programs effective? A systematic and meta-analytical review.ABSTRA…

2 August 2018

EBLS: set to support healthy child development in low- and middle-income countries worldwideAt the end of July 2018 we reached the end of our BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for the initial stages of the Evidence for Better Lives Study (EBLS), led by Dr Aja Murray and Prof Manuel Eisner. The Grant funded visits to the Study’s eight sites to buil…

26 July 2018

Dr Lauren Rumble is visiting the Violence Research Centre in August. Shehas been working as a children’s and women’s rights advocate with the United Nations and other organisations for the past 15 years. She is passionate about using evidence to influence public policy and has been designing and leading child and social protection programmes in Afr…

26 July 2018

Hannah Gaffney published Evaluating the effectiveness of school-bullying prevention programs: An updated meta-analytical review in the Aggression and Violent Behaviour journal. Co-authors of the paper are Dr Maria Ttofi, Violence Research Centre and Prof David P. Farrington, Institute of Criminology. Below is the abstract of the paper.ABSTRACTA com…

25 July 2018

Dr Justice Tankebe published two papers focusing on his research on policing and legitimacy: In their own eyes: an empirical examination of police self-legitimacy in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice and Doing research with police elites in Ghana in Criminology & Criminal Justice. The latter was co-authored by Em…

19 July 2018

Prof Manuel Eisner chaired a session at the 4th International Conference on Governance, Crime and Justice Statistics, held on 4-6 June in Lima, Peru. The Conference, which involved over 400 academics from 35 countries, was organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime through the Center of Excellence and was supported by the Mexican Nat…

11 July 2018

The Violence Research Centre, at the Institute of Criminology, has strong collaborative links with a number of international academics and violence prevention experts. Professor Jay Singh, University of Pennsylvania, has joined us as an affiliated member. Prof Singh visited the Institute of Criminology in June to deliver a seminar entitled Forensic…

5 July 2018

Prof Daniel Nagin, Teresa And H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, is visiting the Violence Research Centre, at the Institute of Criminology, for collaborative work related to the Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso).This is an on-going longit…

27 June 2018

Members of the VRC Dr Aja Murray and Professor Manuel Eisner have published a paper called Disagreeing about development: An analysis of parent‐teacher agreement in ADHD symptom trajectories across the elementary school years. Co-authors are Dr Tom Booth, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh and Denis Ribeaud, Jacobs Centre for Product…

21 June 2018

The Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge hosted the 21st Nigel Walker Lecture on 17 May.  In his inaugural lecture as Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Prof Manuel Eisner presented Creating More Peaceful Societies: Global Strategies to Reduce Interpersonal Violence by 50% in 2040. The lecture touched on the 2030 Sustainable Devel…