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Violence Research Centre, University of Cambridge The Violence Research Centre, at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, promotes the

How Networks Shape Youth Violence?🗓️ Wednesday, 20th May, 11 am – 12 noon📍 Online webinarJoin Paolo Campana, James Suthe...
12/05/2026

How Networks Shape Youth Violence?

🗓️ Wednesday, 20th May, 11 am – 12 noon
📍 Online webinar

Join Paolo Campana, James Sutherland (Cambridgeshire Constabulary), Cecilia Meneghini (Exeter University) and Noemi Corsini to discuss the findings of our project 'Breaking networks of youth serious violence', exploring how the relational behaviour of young people, as captured by police crime records, shapes their risk of involvement in violence.

💡 This webinar will provide new light on the network structures and positions that drive vulnerability to violence, and point to practical opportunities for targeted, network-informed interventions.

For practitioners, policymakers, and researchers working on addressing youth violence.

👉 Registration is required at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AIBMkoHRQQWTOvroW0hQ6Q

The project has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation, but the views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily the Foundation.

📣 Call for papers - special collection!🕰️Rethinking time in developmental criminologyThe concept of time is integral to ...
10/11/2025

📣 Call for papers - special collection!

🕰️Rethinking time in developmental criminology

The concept of time is integral to developmental and life course criminology. By definition, developmental and life course processes unfold over time, across life stages and within changing socio-historical contexts.

Prevention and implementation science is similarly concerned with questions about time: key to developing effective interventions is knowing precisely when and for how long a given treatment will affect lasting change in the targeted outcome. Yet the specification of time in criminological theory and research remains largely implicit and underspecified.

Thinking about time in developmental models of crime has been heavily shaped by the constraints of ‘waves’ in longitudinal studies. In reality, causal mechanisms happen on a continuum of time frames, from seconds do days, months and years to the macro time of generations, history and evolution.

Too often, statistical models are fitted to longitudinal data that don’t capture this reality, and are not fit to test the questions we want to ask. We need a new generation of studies based on a more complex notion of time in developmental processes, and data that capture processes at difference size orders of time.

This special collection calls for contributions that aim to take time seriously in criminological theory and empirical research. Submissions should critically examine how time is conceptualized, modeled, and measured in developmental and life course criminology, and explore innovative ways to advance temporal thinking in theory and research.

For more information please contact Amy Nivette ([email protected]) or Manuel Eisner ([email protected]).
Deadline: 1 March 2026

https://link.springer.com/journal/40865

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