Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.
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There is widespread agreement that social policies need to be based on strong evidence, to ensure they produce their intended outcomes whilst minimising unwanted side-effects, and that they are cost-effective. A total of...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
The project is focused on building the evidence base for crime reduction, which directly addresses the question.
While government has been the custodian of statistical information about society, particularly about crime, criminal justice and social harm, an open society depends upon the wider accessibility of data to support its de...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Salford
The project focuses on developing a Profiler for crime and criminal justice, which is not directly related to building the evidence base for a changing crime landscape.
There is probably no other scientific endeavour more relevant to the field of Criminology than to count crime accurately. Crime estimates are central to policy. They are used in the allocation of police resources, and mo...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Surrey
The project aims to improve the accuracy of estimates of crime, which is related to the question but does not directly address building the evidence base for a changing crime landscape.