With @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social and @paulgillucl.bsky.social @ctrg.bsky.social

Women who demonstrated high probabilities of all ACEs (High ACEs) scored significantly higher on our proxy measure for susceptibility to violent extremism.

Men who had moderate probabilities of indicators of a chaotic home environment, including drug use, mental health problems, but notably low probabilities of abuse indicators configurations (Unstable Home) scored significantly higher on our proxy measure for susceptibility to violent extremism.

Men with high probabilities of indicators related to psychological and physical abuse by a parent or caregiver (Child Abuse Victimisation) scored significantly higher on our proxy measure for susceptibility to violent extremism.

Using latent class analysis, we find four clusters relating to (a) high overall ACEs; (b) child abuse victimisation; (c) unstable home environment; and (d) low ACEs.

ACEs are harms that affect children directly (e.g. physical & emotional abuse, neglect) and indirectly through their living environment (e.g. conflict between caregivers, witnessing domestic abuse, and caregiver substance abuse, incarceration, or mental illness).

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.

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.

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

📚 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

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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