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EBLS: set to support healthy child development in low- and middle-income countries worldwide At 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...

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...

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...

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...