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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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 aims to prototype the development of a 'Profiler' that can enable civil society opinion formers to better understand factors affecting crime, criminal justice and social harm.
The COVID-19 crisis is changing the shape of crime. Drawing on crime science, this research will inform evidence-based policy and practice. Lockdown requires people to stay home, leading to domestic violence and child ...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
The project focuses on reducing the unanticipated crime harms of COVID-19 policies, which is related to the social and psychological harm of new forms of crime.
Overall crime rates in the UK have been steadily declining since the mid 1990s. In the past few years, however, the incidence of violent crime, and in particular murder, began to rise. Between July 2017 and June 2018 the...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Southampton
The project aims to measure the costs of violent crime risk, which is related to the social and psychological harm of new forms of crime.