Supporting partners and communities to reduce crime and vulnerability

Background

We know that safety requires action and intervention beyond the police service. We will work with partners and communities to help keep them safe, increase trust and support them in preventing crime.

Next steps

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Source

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

Mps areas of research interest final

Related UKRI funded projects

  • Community Policing in Scotland

    Partners: \nThe Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR)\nThe Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR)\nLothian and Borders Police (LBP)\n\nKT team:\nSimon Mackenzie, SCCJR (KT Fellow)\nAlistair Henr...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on community policing, which is directly related to supporting partners and communities to reduce crime and vulnerability.

  • Neighbourhood Policing and Collective Efficacy (NPACE): Tackling Serious Violent Crime

    Despite recent concerns that cuts to neighbourhood policing have contributed to a surge in serious violent crime - in the first 100 days of 2018, 52 people were killed as a result of serious violence in London - there is...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University College London

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to develop a greater understanding of how neighbourhood policing works and its role in building strong and cohesive communities, which is relevant to supporting partners and communities to reduce crime and vulnerability.

  • An Exploratory Knowledge Exchange Platform for Policing: Exploiting Knowledge Assets, Utilising Data and Piloting Research Co-production

    The project will build a strategic and innovative knowledge exchange and research co-production platform, providing a structured relationship between West Yorkshire Police (WYP), the Office of the PCC for West Yorkshire ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Leeds

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on developing a knowledge exchange and research co-production platform for policing, which can support the goal of supporting partners and communities to reduce crime and vulnerability.

  • University Consortium for Evidence-Based Crime Reduction

    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

  • Crime, Policing and Citizenship (CPC) - Space-Time Interactions of Dynamic Networks

    Crime continues to cast a shadow over citizen well-being in big cities today, while also imposing huge economic and social costs. Prevention, early detection and strategic mitigation are all critical to effective policy ...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: University College London

  • Who experiences or witnesses ASB and in what context?

    In a climate of diminishing budgets, falling police officer numbers and a growing number of calls related to "public safety and welfare" (College of Policing, 2015) senior police officers have highlighted the n...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Nottingham Trent University

  • Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre

    Policing is undergoing rapid transformation. As societies face new and more complex challenges, police workloads increasingly focus on managing risks of harm to vulnerable people. At the same time, public debate voicing ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of York

  • The Islington Crime Survey: Thirty Years On

    This research aims to provide an overview of the trends in crime and victimisation in an inner city area over the last thirty years. In this period it is widely recognised that the inner city has undergone major changes ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Kent

  • Reducing the Unanticipated Crime Harms of COVID-19 Policies

    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

  • Place, crime and insecurity in everyday life: A contemporary study of an English town

    In this project we investigate how people living in one English town, Macclesfield in Cheshire, talk about and act towards a range of threats that they regard as impinging upon their safety (their personal bodily integri...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Keele University

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