violence

Mapping co-offender data from police records reveals the young people embedded in criminal networks who are most likely to carry knives, commit...

Major 25-year study reveals a ‘dual pathway’ for when people start carrying.

As the climate crisis leads to more intense and more frequent extreme weather and climate-related events, this in turn risks increasing the amount of...

Researchers use over a decade of data from Thames Valley Police to reveal 'mechanisms' that generate and sustain violence within networks of organised...

Experiencing bullying and forms of aggression in late adolescence and early adulthood is linked to a marked increase in the likelihood of having...

Many people misunderstand the relationship between religion, scripture and violence, a new book argues. Some people worry that scriptures such as the...

In understanding war-related post-traumatic stress disorder, a person’s cultural and professional context is just as important as how they cope with...

Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a lagoon is unique evidence of a violent encounter between...

Marta Mirazon Lahr (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies) discusses the discovery, made by her and her team, of the oldest known case of...

As Obama pledges investment in body-worn-camera technology for police officers, researchers say cameras induce ‘self-awareness’ that can prevent...