Safer Communities: Volume 20 Issue 3

Curing toxicity – developing design principles to buffer toxic behaviour in massive multiplayer online games

Bastian Kordyaka, Björn Kruse

The purpose of this paper is to investigate toxic behaviour (TB) that significantly harms individuals’ gameplay experience in multiplayer online video games. Multiplayer online…

Awareness towards cybercrime among secondary school students: the role of gender and school management

Mudit Kumar Verma, Shyam Sundar Kushwaha

The study aims to determine the cybercrime awareness among secondary school students with reference to their gender and school management type.

The experiences of children in custody: a story of survival

Anne-Marie Day

This paper aims to explore children’s experiences during their time in custody in England and Wales.

Price hikes, crime fad or political football? What caused a spike in store robberies for cigarettes in New Zealand: analysis of news reports (2009-2018)

Marewa Glover, Robin Shepherd, Kyro Selket, Saravana Kumar Paramanathen

A large increase in robberies of convenience stores in New Zealand (NZ) in 2016 and 2017 was anecdotally attributed to persistent and substantial increases in excise tax on…

Identifying and intervening to stop school bullying: the role of school resource officers

Gabriel R. Paez, Roddrick Colvin

The purpose of this study is to explore school resource officers (SROs) and their role in preventing, detecting and intervening in bullying incidents.

Working, living and dying in COVID times: perspectives from frontline adult social care workers in the UK

Daniel Briggs, Luke Telford, Anthony Lloyd, Anthony Ellis

This paper aims to explore 15 UK adult social care workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.