Effectively managing violent offenders who pose a risk to the public

Background

Violent crime is a major public concern and tackling it is our top priority. This includes terrorism, knife and gun crime, sexual offending, domestic abuse and safeguarding vulnerable people from predatory behaviour.

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Mps areas of research interest final

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    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Bristol

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on tackling serious violent crime, which is the main concern of the question. The authors have the necessary expertise to evaluate interventions aimed at reducing offending rates in young people.

  • What Worked? Policy Mobility and the Public Health Approach to Youth Violence

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    Why might this be relevant?

    The project explores public health approaches to violence reduction, which is relevant to managing violent offenders. The authors have the necessary expertise to study policy mobility and inform academic and public debate.

  • Networked violence: A relational approach to explain serious violence in the UK

    Violence has been on the rise in the United Kingdom, generating a detrimental impact on the well-being of individuals and communities. Preventing serious violence is a crucial - yet difficult - task that calls for innova...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project explores the mechanisms of serious violence and aims to develop strategies to prevent it, which is partially relevant to managing violent offenders.

  • Explaining and Sustaining the Decline in Stranger, Acquaintance and Domestic Violence

    Violent incidents make up nearly a quarter of crimes recorded in the Crime Survey for England and Wales. The effects are not just those of emotional and physical harm to the individual victim but spread much wider in ter...

    Funded by: ESRC

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  • Contemporary Long-Term Homicide Trends in England and Wales in the Period 1977-2019 and a Comparison with Non-Lethal Violence Trends

    Homicide is undoubtedly the most serious form of violence, resulting in substantial and widespread social, financial, and economic harm. Not only does it result in the physical loss of life, but also in problems for surv...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Warwick

  • A Unified Approach to Measuring the Costs of Violent Crime Risk

    Overall crime rates in the UK have been steadily declining since the mid 1990s. In the past few years, however, the incidence of violent crime, and in particular murder, began to rise. Between July 2017 and June 2018 the...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Southampton

  • Why do juveniles commit crime? New Evidence from England's linked administrative data

    Youth violence has been widely discussed recently in the UK. Recent estimates from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that fatal stabbings and youth violence have hit a record high in England and Wales sinc...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science

  • East Midlands Partnership On violence against WomEn and giRls (EMPOWER)

    Specific crimes that occur in our society are experienced disproportionately by women and girls, including crimes such as rape, domestic violence and homicide. We need effective, specific, and targeted solutions to addre...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Leicester

  • The impact of childhood adversity on violent crime in adolescence and early adulthood

    Even though rates of overall crime have gone down in the UK over the last two decades, levels of serious violence in the past four years indicate a reversal of this trend. As a result, tackling serious violence has becom...

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  • Violence, Health and Society

    Violence causes harms to health, especially long-lasting harms to mental health. Mental health is significantly impacted by violence. These harms to mental health can be more long-lasting than the immediate harms to phys...

    Funded by: MRC

    Lead research organisation: City, University of London

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