Violence Prevention SIG

Preventing Violence argues for holistic public health approaches to creating safer societies. Drawing on insights from Violence Reduction Unit leaders and researchers, including GLEPHA Fellow [...]

Professor Stan Gilmour continues to contribute to global conversations on justice, policing, and public health. In a recent episode of the Transform Justice podcast, he discussed how the criminal [...]

GLEPHA’s Violence Prevention Special Interest Group played a central role in the first African Regional Conference on Law Enforcement and Public Health, a milestone event advancing collaborative [...]

The UK government’s recent commitment of £75 million towards establishing Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) in all areas marks a pivotal component of the broader £1.8 billion public sector [...]

Around the world, sex workers and people who use drugs report that police are often a major impediment to accessing health and social services. Common police practices—using condoms as evidence [...]