Iain Brennan

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Knife crime: Important new findings could help us understand why people carry weapons

27th August 2018

ANALYSIS: Knife crime is rising, and many have speculated about the causes of the rise - but what do we actually know about the reasons young people carry weapons? Dr Iain Brennan, Reader in Criminology at the University of Hull, explains his important new research.

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Iain Brennan
Senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Hull.
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Iain is a chartered research psychologist and senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Hull. He has worked on a variety of research projects with most centring on the prevention of violence. His current research interests include weapon violence, domestic abuse, violence in bars and victim responses to victimisation. Iain's 2007 PhD from Cardiff University was called "Weapon violence: An investigation of victimisation and offending". He has won awards for research including the British Society of Criminology Brian Williams Journal Article Prize in 2011 and was a member of the Violence and Society Research Group team at Cardiff University that received the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2009. He teaches modules on criminology and psychology including Forensic Psychology and Experimental Criminology. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a member of the British Society of Criminology.