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New research: link between online hate speech with real-world hate crime

The latest post on the Oxford University Press blog examines the link between online hate speech and hate crime as it happens in the real world.

Researcher and blog post author, Professor Matthew Williams, has been conducting research in this area. His findings suggest that anti-Black and anti-Muslim hate speech online is linked to heightened racial and religious violence and harassment.

The post is a summary of an article by...

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Illicit drug markets and the exploitation and criminalisation of young people

For the past five years, much of my work has focused on the harms associated with prohibitionist drug policies.

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A duty to prevent violence – empowerment or burden?

'Knife offenders will be treated like would-be jihadists under measures announced on Monday by Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, to crack down on violent crime.'
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The College of Policing on ‘knife crime’: a turn for the better?

The College of Policing has issued a very interesting briefing on knife crime.

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New project - Violence: prevention, public health and social justice

Violence: prevention, public health and social justice - aims to outline a framework for determining how violence reduction for everyone can be effectively achieved. The project is being done in partnership with Unison.

The Centre's Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, will be leading the project.

For more information please visit our project page.

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Violence: prevention, public health and social justice

The aim of this project is to outline a framework for determining how violence reduction for everyone can be effectively achieved.

We will review the state of evidence about ways of reducing violence and consider how a public health approach can deal with the causes of harmful behaviours. In this context, we plan to assess levels of violence in recent years and to consider how far investment in public health interventions has...

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Ambiguous endings to a supervisory experience

Although it now seems like a distant reflection, I was minded to recall working with Paola (not her real name) whilst reading an impressively moving...

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Centre's director on Talk Radio

Our Director, Richard Garside, was interviewed on Talk Radio yesterday on far-right violence and the underlying causes of violence in society.

On underlying causes of violence, Richard said:

We know that societies that are more unequal in relation to power and money, are generally speaking more violent.

Watch the whole clip...

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This week in media appearances

It's been a busy week for our Director, Richard Garside, who has given his comments on a range of criminal justice issues.

In Tuesday's Guardian, Richard drew light on the geographical clustering of knife violence in an article by Jamie Grierson. ...

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Beneath county lines

County lines refers to the extension of drug supply from urban into rural and other settings. Adopting the analysis of the National Crime Agency (NCA), the construction of public discussion about...

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Evidence mounts on Glasgow's Violence Reduction Unit

Susan McVie, Ellie Bates and Rebecca Pillinger recently published their research findings on violence reduction in Glasgow and London on the LSE blog.

The findings support our own research, presented in Young people, violence and knives, a briefing we published in November examining knife violence...

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Public health model to reduce youth violence

Last Thursday, parliament held a debate, 'Public health model to reduce youth violence'.

The Home Office released its Serious Violence Strategy earlier this year aiming to take a public health approach to violence. London...