This Stinks

There is an acute awareness and concern about violence and its effects on individuals and society as a whole throughout Europe. Individual security is threatened in everyday life in a wide array of circumstances and places: at home, school, work, sports events and in the streets. While violence and the fear of violence affects the quality of life of the entire population, certain groups of people may be perceived as specific targets of violence, e.g. women, children and older persons as well as migrants, refugees and ethnic groups. Patterns and types of threats to individual security, and their causes, need to be identified so that a coherent policy, along with appropriate intervention tools against such threats, can be prepared and applied.

The integrated project "Responses to violence in everyday life in a democratic society" has been set up to address these widely shared ...