SEBP 2021 Conference: Professor Simon Harding on Urban Youth Violence

<p>Simon is Professor in Criminology at University of West London (UWL) and Director of the National Centre for Gang Research at UWL.  He advises the Home Office, Metropolitan Police Service, National Crime Agency and HMICFRS on youth violence, gangs, knives and county lines.</p> <p>Simon has over 35 years practitioner/professional experience in crime reduction partnerships and community safety including with the Home Office, Hackney council, Islington council and as Crime Reduction Director in Lambeth.  He has worked on over 2,500 UK social housing estates, authored numerous reports and in 1999 invented Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABCs).   </p> <p>His books The Street Casino: survival in violent street gangs (2014) won the Frederick Thrasher Award for 2014 for Superior Gang Research.  Current research includes Moped Crime, Drill music, Acid Attacks, Knife Crime, County Lines.  His new book with Bristol University Press is County Lines: exploitation and drug dealing amongst urban street gangs.</p> <p> </p> <p>www.sebp.police.uk</p>