Understanding the drivers of homicide and serious violence

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:

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Related UKRI funded projects

  • 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

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project directly investigates the drivers of homicide trends in England and Wales, which is a form of serious violence, and the authors have a background in criminology, sociology, social policy and economics.

  • 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

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project explores the relational mechanisms underpinning serious violence, which is a part of understanding the drivers of homicide and serious violence, and the authors have access to large-scale police dataset.

  • 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

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project fully answers the question and the authors have the necessary expertise.

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

    The study seeks to further the ESRC's strategic objective of a 'safer, fairer society' through establishing a new evidence-base on public health approaches to violence reduction, and the ways such policies transfer betwe...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • 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

  • Home Office / ADR UK Feasibility Study Lead Academic

    Rates of serious violent crime in England and Wales have been increasing since 2014. Although these offences account for only around 1% of total crime, they cause disproportionate harm to individuals and society as a who...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically focuses on understanding the drivers of serious violent crime in England and Wales, providing insights on interventions and data evaluation.

  • 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

  • Understanding Domestic Homicide in Scotland : Exploring Patterns, Promoting Safeguarding

    In the UK, over the past ten years, on average a woman is killed by her partner or former partner every 4 days. While our understanding of domestic abuse in all its forms has increased in recent years, we know significan...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • Participatory Research for Effective Collaboration in Response to Non-War Violences

    UN Resolution A/73/338 which set up the International Year of Peace and Trust in 2021 lays an important foundation for building a 'culture of peace', recognizing that peace is not only absence of conflict but requires a ...

    Funded by: AHRC

  • 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

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