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CVS - The Centre for Violence Studies

The Center for Violence Studies (CVS) is an international multidisciplinary research center, comprised of senior and junior researchers.

Seminars

Serial Publication

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Feminist Violence Studies

Violence is gendered and intersectional, and situated in social, political, economic, and environmental contexts. We study it in relation to power, distribution, and stratification.

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STOP – Stalking, Threat and Opression Prevention

Our research on stalking and intimate partner violence mainly concerns risk assessment and risk management, using an applied criminological framework.

Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education, ReShape

ReShape studies violence and abuse in sport, from various perspectives, including sport systems, governing bodies, gender, and prevention.

Juridical Studies of Violence - a body of scholarship concerned with how law not only regulates violence but may itself constitute and legitimise forms of harm through legal norms, procedures, and adjudication.

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Social Violence Studies, SVS

SVS is research group that studies violence as a relational and social phenomenon, with particular focus on how society's responses and interventions are shaped, implemented and affect people's everyday lives and well-being.