We still have a huge knowledge gap on how to actually reduce violence.
- Professor of Criminology, Durham University
Whole-life sentences are rarely handed down in the UK. Recent instances of their use point to gendered violence finally being taken more seriously.
The terrible murder of a British woman is a clear example of how our behaviour at work can be linked to violence against women.
It starts with a basic conversation about their needs and fears.
For some people, home is not a safe place to be.
Same old rape myths, same old victim blaming.
The world is full of bad responses to sexual assault allegations. Here’s how to do it right.
Hampshire constabulary has paid £20,000 in damages, but the underlying problems will take much more to solve.
“Can a leopard really change its spots?” “Does everyone deserve a second chance?” “Do perpetrator programmes work?” These are some of the questions we are being asked this week as we release findings from…
This week’s no-brainer award goes to the UK Home Office - an accolade it has surely won many times before. A new consultation has been launched to see whether the law on domestic violence should match…
An important shift has taken place in our awareness of sexual violence. The Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, co-chaired by foreign secretary William Hague and Angelina Jolie, the UN’s…
Feminists: we’re always complaining about something aren’t we? Sign my online petition, withdraw this, that and the other, retweet this, boycott that, and don’t even bring a Nestle product into the office…
Two people have been jailed for making threats and sending abusive messages on Twitter to Caroline Criado-Perez, the feminist campaigner who sought to have a woman put on a British bank note. Isabella…
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