As part of the Gramsci Goes LIVE and Digital Series, The Antonio Gramsci Society UK is delighted to present a conversation between esteemed scholars, Richard Whittington and James McGuire.

In this talk Richard and James will consider how recent scientific findings continue to support the primacy of social and psychological factors in explaining human violence and will discuss the potential for co-ordinated global action to address the problem.

As a stimulus for reflections and questions, the discussion will also draw on the recently published co-authored book Violence Rewired: Evidence and Strategies for Public Health Action (Whittington and McGuire, 2020. Cambridge University Press).

Richard Whittington is a Senior Research Adviser at the Centre for Research and Education in Security, Prisons and Forensic Psychiatry at St. Olav’s Hospital and Professor in the Institute of Mental Health, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

James McGuire is Emeritus Professor of Forensic Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool. He has worked in mental health services in the NHS and carried out research in prisons, probation services, addictions units, and policing, and has been a member of advisory groups on aspects of criminal justice in the UK and several other countries.