Manuel Eisner

{{Short description|British criminologist}}

Manuel Eisner is Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He researches the history of interpersonal violence,{{cite book|author1=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Justice Committee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NRCNByUz1DgC&pg=PA142|title=Cutting Crime: The Case for Justice Reinvestment, First Report of Session 2009-10, Vol. 2: Oral and Written Evidence|author2=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|date=14 January 2010|publisher=The Stationery Office|isbn=978-0-215-54311-0|pages=142–}} and has conducted a study on levels of homicide throughout Europe over a period of 800 years.{{cite book|author=Michael Tonry Sonosky |title=Thinking about Crime : Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GHOGsOeyzXgC&pg=PA102|date=29 January 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-803233-5|pages=102–}}Long-Term Historical Trends in Violent Crime", Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol. 30, 2003, pp.83-142 His research has highlighted the ways in which cultural models of conduct of life, embedded in social institutions, have shaped patterns of daily behaviour among adolescent and young adult men, which in turn have influenced the likelihood of frictions leading to aggressive behaviour.{{cite book|author=Neil Websdale |title=Familicidal Hearts: The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qOEgnvfZszMC&pg=PA117|date=12 January 2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-971795-8|pages=117–}} He is also recognised for his studies on the developmental causes of crime and delinquency{{cite book|author1=Robert M Regoli |author2=John D. Hewitt |author3=Matt Delisi |title=Delinquency in Society: The Essentials|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7399b0UPTcEC&pg=PA325%7Cdate%3D20+April+2011%7Cpublisher%3DJones+|date=20 April 2011|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|isbn=978-1-4496-4422-2|pages=325–}} and advocates the effectiveness of early prevention during childhood. Recent projects include the Medieval Murder Map{{Cite web|last=Castello|first=Simone|date=2018-05-31|title=London Medieval Murder Map|url=https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/vrcresearch/london-medieval-murder-map|access-date=2020-10-22|website=www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk|language=en}} with Stephanie Brown, and the Evidence for Better Lives,{{Cite web|last=Administrator|date=2015-11-16|title=Evidence for Better Lives Study (EBLS)|url=https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/vrcresearch/EBLS|access-date=2020-10-22|website=www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk|language=en}} a global birth-cohort study in eight cities across the world.[https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/People/professor-manuel-eisner Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Professor Manuel Eisner]