Research Group

Centre for Violence, Victimisation and Vulnerability

Our research seeks to understand the interpersonal, systemic and cultural dynamics of violence, victimisation and abuse.

Centre for Violence

With a particular interest in violence reduction, exploitation and gender-based violence, we seek to develop an evidence-base to drive innovations in policy and practice. Using a blend of innovative quantitative and qualitative research methods, we investigate how to understand and respond to these issues.

Contact email: cv3@hull.ac.uk

Group leads

Dr Alicia Heys [Co-Director]

Dr Nicola O’Leary [Co-Director]

Professor Simon Green [Associate Director]

Professor Iain Brennan [Associate Director]

 

The Challenge

Our research seeks to understand the interpersonal, systemic and cultural dynamics of violence,  victimisation and abuse.  To do this, we critically engage with the concept of vulnerability - and explore where people, neighbourhoods and communities find resilience to cope with the harms inflicted upon them. With a particular interest in violence reduction, exploitation and gender-based violence, we seek to develop an evidence-base to drive innovations in policy and practice.

In aiming to promote justice and fairness for all, we draw on applied innovative quantitative and qualitative research methods in seeking to address the inequalities in the distribution and experience of interpersonal harm. With a focus on both immediate and far-reaching impact, we investigate how to understand and respond to violence and victimisation around the UK - and across the world.

The Approach

The challenge is a fair and just society for all. We will utilise our research capacity and our growing community of scholars and practitioners to confront, explore and rethink the criminal justice approaches to violence, victimisation and vulnerability to positively impact on existing social justice policy and practice.

Our research is a critical engagement with social justice, aiming to understand how it interacts at every level, from the individual to whole systems and from the local to the global. Our research should make a difference. It critically engages with the world to provide the evidence and expert insight necessary to understand how society, justice and fairness can be realised and how people, households, communities, partners and policymakers can work to create positive change for victims of crime.

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Aims

  • Better understand experiences of violence, vulnerability and victimisation
  • Reduce violence
  • Combat exploitation and abuse
  • Improve the treatment and empowerment of victims

The Impact

We strive for social justice through evidence-led policy and practice. This goal informs how we approach research: ensuring that the voice of the public is represented, using the most rigorous approaches to understand violence and victimisation and producing applied research that speaks directly to policy-makers, practitioners and the public.

Whether it is demonstrating how to better apply modern slavery legislation, determining the most effective methods for reducing community violence or uncovering the hidden harms of violence against women and girls, CV3’s research makes a difference for victims of crime.

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