Research and analysis

An analysis of indicators of serious violence: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study and the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study

This report uses two UK-based surveys to examine factors linked to serious violence and how risk factors can be used to identify individuals for intervention.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 23 July 2019

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An analysis of indicators of serious violence: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study and the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78655-850-3, Home Office Research Report 110

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This report uses two UK-based surveys to determine the factors most strongly associated with serious violence linked behaviours. Further analysis shows the difference that using risk factors can make to identifying individuals for intervention.

The factors found to be mostly strongly associated are gender, number of siblings in the household, having experienced child maltreatment, lack of self-control, early puberty, experience of victimisation, frequency of truanting, bullying, self-harm, risk taking/gambling, feeling isolated, and having previously committed minor violence, theft, public disorder and/or cybercrime.

It shows that using combinations of risk factors and those with stronger associations can increase the ability of interventions to reach those most at risk. However, the trade-off is that not all at risk individuals will be reached.

Published 23 July 2019