Common insights across different “hidden crimes”.

Background

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.

Next steps

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Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Areas of research interest relevant to the Home Office GOVUK

Related UKRI funded projects

  • CybercrimeNLP (CC-NLP): A natural language processing toolkit for the interdisciplinary analysis of underground online forums

    Online and electronic crime now account for about half of all property crime, in all countries for which we have good victimisation data. A significant number of other offences, including harassment, also happen online. ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on studying online crime, which is one of the hidden crimes mentioned in the question. The authors have the necessary expertise in natural language processing to analyze large volumes of text.

  • COVID-19 and Child Criminal Exploitation: Closing Urgent Knowledge and Data Gaps on the Implications of Pandemic for County Lines.

    The number of potential victims of modern slavery referred to the National Crime Agency's National Referral Mechanism has risen consistently since the introduction of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. A significant contributo...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Nottingham

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project investigates the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on child criminal exploitation, which is one of the hidden crimes mentioned in the question. While it may not fully answer the question, it provides insights into the impacts of the pandemic on criminal behavior.

  • Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research

    In December 2014, RUSI launched a Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research to develop a world class research agenda that meets the needs of policymakers. With the support of government agencies and Research Councils UK...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Royal United Services Institute

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on bridging the gap between academic research on organized crime and the needs of policymakers. While it does not directly address hidden crimes, it provides a framework for improving responses to organized crime, which can indirectly contribute to addressing hidden crimes.

  • Crimes of child sexual exploitation in England - A socio-legal project promoting effective approaches to investigation and prosecution.

    The 2012 national inquiry into child sexual exploitation (CSE) in gangs and groups by the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England reported 2409 'confirmed victims' of child sexual exploitation in either gangs o...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Kent

  • A Profiler for Crime, Criminal Justice and Social Harm

    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

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