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Domestic abuse ‘workshops’ reduce repeat offending and harm to public – study

16 Aug 2017

First UK experiment on policing domestic abuse finds fewer men reoffending against partners – and reoffenders causing less harm to victims – when...

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Global violence rates could be halved in just 30 years, say leading experts

18 Sep 2014

Research shows that homicide rates in many countries are falling; leading experts from around the world believe that global rates of homicide and...

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Screenshots from TV report on the original Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment that took place in 1987-88

Mandatory arrest in domestic violence call-outs causes early death in victims

03 Mar 2014

Cambridge criminologist follows up on landmark US domestic violence arrest experiment and finds that black victims who had partners arrested rather...

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