Treating Violence With a Public Health Approach, with Grace Strong

How can we prevent violence before it happens?

Grace Strong, who helped set up and leads the Violence Reduction Network for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, has spent her career working with communities affected by crime. She discusses how addressing the issues behind offending — trauma, abuse, rejection, isolation — lies at the heart of the ‘public health’ approach to preventing violence. She explains how this principle underpins Focused Deterrence, an approach that successfully reduced violent crime in US cities and is now being tested across the UK.

Links and resources

• Violence Reduction Network
• YEF Toolkit | Focused Deterrence
• Children, violence and vulnerability 2025 | The scale of violence affecting children

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Host: Ciaran Thapar, Youth Endowment Fund
Series Producer: Meera Kumar

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