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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Areas of research interest relevant to the Home Office GOVUK
Timely yet safe decisions require real-time ingestion and assimilation of data pertaining to system dynamics, cognisant of incompleteness, uncertainty, inherent under/over-representation, and bias. This fellowship will d...
Funded by: FLF
Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow
The project addresses the challenges of missing data and biases in new forms of data, providing solutions for integrating them with traditional statistical sources.
This project reframes key challenges that underlie modern policing in a socio-technical world; a world instrumented with mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies, in which many citizens and communities live, work and...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: The Open University
The project aims to support a new engagement between authorities (such as the police) and communities of citizens in order to better investigate (and in the long term reduce) potential or actual threats to citizen security, safety, and privacy.
This project aims to significantly advance risk assessment practices in public and private sector organisations by applying machine learning techniques to the analysis of big data.In collaboration with the police and wid...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: TRILATERAL RESEARCH LTD
This project will address a use case that focuses on the computation of risk and vulnerability which is pivotal to protecting young people exposed to the threats of sexual and criminal exploitation and to identify those likely to reoffend.