For the past five years Dr Bateman, Dr Factor and Professor Pitts have been involved in the National Lottery funded Beyond Youth Custody programme managed by Nacro, where they have produced a series of research-based publications.

Between 2016 and 2018 Professor Pitts undertook a study of the effects of County (drug) lines on youth crime in a target destination in East Anglia.

The Centre has recently won a Nuffield Foundation award to research the relationship between being or having been in Care and incarceration in the Youth Justice System, led by Dr Bateman assisted by Professor Pitts.

Professor Pitts is currently research consultant to the English Premier league Ending the Cycle of Violence programme.

The Vauxhall Centre launched what became Safer Communities with Pavilion Publishing in 2002. Dr Tim Bateman is currently joint editor.

Now published quarterly by Emerald Group Publishing, it combines research findings with the needs and 'know how' of professionals and practitioners in the growing field of community safety.

The editors are supported by a group of associate editors and a larger advisory board, comprising researchers, policy makers and practitioners from all areas of community safety.

Directors

• Professor John Pitts

Associates

Associates of the Vauxhall Centre are members of the Institute for Applied Social Research and other, visiting, scholars and practitioners with whom we collaborate in our research and scholarship.

• Dr Fiona Factor
• Dr Jaya Ghosh
• Dr Gary Manders
• Dr Seamus Murphy
• Dr Sireita Mullings
• Dr Suzella Palmer