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Tackling and Preventing Violent Crime

Online Event 13 September 2022, 9:00am - 3:00pm

Day 1
9:00am
Online Registration
9:40am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera, Director of Policing, Criminology & Justice, University of East London
9:50am
Keynote Address: Delivering The UK Plan To Beat Violent Crime Through Cross-Sector Partnerships
  • Implementing a strong, unified approach to reducing serious violence and neighbourhood crime and enhancing safety practices by 2030
  • Acknowledging the repercussions of recent rises in extreme violent crime including knife crime and homicide, comprehending the complex factors that contribute to this increase
  • Recognising the value of early interventions by police officers, local authorities, education partners and local authorities, and effective law enforcement in ending violent crime
  • Recognising the seriousness of violence against the women and vulnerable communities
Jess Phillips MP, Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding
10:10am
Keynote Address: Reducing Violence In Scotland Through Public Health Approach
Professor Niven Rennie, Director, Scottis Violent Reduction Unit
10:30am
Questions And Answers Session
10:50am
Break and Networking
11:30am
Keynote Address: Promoting Safe Alternatives For Diverting Young People Away From Violence
  • Sharing experiences and understanding of the complex drivers for serious violence
  • Implementing a child-first approach and the DIVERT programme to reduce the likelihood of young people being affected by violent crime as victims or perpetrators 
  • Understanding the common causes of violence and the key challenges resulting from child vulnerability, exploitation, substance abuse, and the normalisation of abusive behaviour
  • Recognising the dangers of social media on rates of juvenile violence
Susannah Clarke, Director, Lancashire Violence Reduction Unit
11:50am
Case Study: Embedding Trauma-Informed Approach In Tackling Violent Crime
  • Discussing the prevalence of adverse childhood experience (ACEs), developmental trauma and their impacts
  •  Introducing trauma-informed practice
  • Exploring how the police can embed trauma-informed practice
Stephen Walcott, Researcher, The Police Foundation
12:10pm
Keynote Address: Preventing Gender-Based Violent Crime, Domestic Violence, And Coercive Control
  • Addressing the difficulties of combatting offences such as harassment, domestic abuse, and homicide, including both public crimes and hidden crimes that are harder to measure
  • Implementing prevention work in youth settings to challenge the inevitability of violence and develop comprehensive training to combat gender-based crimes
  • Recognising the lasting impact of violence on women and girls, taking greater action to assist survivors with dealing with long-term effects
  • Identifying how people can seek support and the necessary mechanisms for ensuring that abuse and crimes are recognised in the criminal justice system
Donna Covey CBE, Chief Executive, AVA Project
12:30pm
Questions and Answers Session
12:50pm
Lunch And Networking
1:40pm
Case Study: Working In Partnership To Tackle Sexual Violence
  • Role of PCC in initiating new schemes to tackle sexual violence
  • Targeting problem areas through intelligent collaboration
  • Listening to the community to learn from their experience and create positive changes
Donna Jones, Police and Crime Commissioner, Hampshire Police
2:00pm
Case Study: Changing Violence? Public Health, Youth and Violence Reduction In Scotland
  • Interrogating violence reduction in Scotland, analysing the role of the Violence Reduction Unit and public health approaches more broadly
  • Developing a timeline of key events, people and activities that contributed to the reduction in violence
  • Exploring the significance of different factors in contributing to violence reduction in Scotland, including leadership, systems change, and narrative
  • Drawing conclusions for the work of VRUs in other jurisdictions, including implications for policy and practice
Dr Alistair Fraser, Director, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR)
2:20pm
Questions And Answers Session
2:40pm
Chair’s Summary And Close

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