🔹 New Publication: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Susceptibility to Violent Extremism Open access in Terrorism and Political Violence - led by @zoemarchment.bsky.social with @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social and @paulgillucl.bsky.social 👉 Read the paper www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Susceptibility to Violent Extremism

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are harms that affect children directly (e.g. physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect) and indirectly through their living environment (e.g. conflict betwe...

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Other highlights from the week 👇 🔹 A paper by @paulgillucl.bsky.social, @zoemarchment.bsky.social & @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social was presented to the Council of Europe, focusing on the drivers of violent extremism.

Our new study uses a nationally representative sample of the UK general population to explore how different clusters of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can be related to susceptibility to violent extremism.

We recently partnered with the Youth Endowment Fund to understand how poverty relates to children’s involvement in crime and violence youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/evid... 🔑 Key insights: 1. Poverty is a risk factor, but we did not find enough evidence to establish causality

Evidence Review: Poverty, Youth Crime and Violence | YEF

Explore how poverty relates to youth crime and violence. Read YEF and UCL’s evidence review on risk factors, gender, family and future interventions.

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📚 Papers Published 2021–2024 🔹 8th most cited in Journal of Computational Social Science: The temporal evolution of a far-right forum, led by Bennett Kleinberg 🔹 10th most cited in Crime Science: Systematic review and meta-analysis of risk terrain modelling (RTM), led by @zoemarchment.bsky.social

New Bluesky profile for our Counter Terrorism Research Group at UCL: @ctrg.bsky.social Follow to keep up to date with our research, and stay tuned for our website launch!

Our research group has launched a Bluesky account @ctrg.bsky.social to keep you up-to-date on our work on radicalisation, terrorism, and extremism. Members include @paulgillucl.bsky.social @noemiebouhana.bsky.social @zoemarchment.bsky.social @amberseaward.bsky.social @sandyschumann.bsky.social