What behavioural and technical interventions will improve the safety of public spaces and the public’s perception of their safety?
Background
"Crime prevention is the ability to understand and respond to drivers and inhibitors of crime, including crowd management, public trust, mental health and wellbeing.
In maintaining safe public spaces, our core interest is securing robust evidence of ‘what works,’ for whom, when, and where (see the College of Policing’s Practice Bank). In asking this question we recognise the diversity of our communities and populations and the need to understand the value and impact of prevention initiatives within these contexts. Our interest extends to online spaces and the technologies that can help prevent crimes and enhance public safety. Finally, as outlined in the National Police Chiefs' Council Roads Policing Strategy, we continue to prioritise road safety."
Next steps
"We welcome your engagement with our ARIs in the following ways:
• If you have evidence that completely or partly supports or answers one of our ARIs, we invite you to share that with us. For any ongoing research relevant to policing and crime reduction, we encourage you to register your research on the College of Policing’s research projects map, which has been designed to promote collaboration and support requests for participants.
• If you are, or plan to be, carrying out research that relates to one of our ARIs, we’d like to hear about it. While we cannot respond to speculative approaches for research funding, we will where possible act to support your ambitions, including finding you policing partners where possible.
• If you are submitting a funding or grant application that aligns with one of our ARIs, we hope that referencing policing’s ARIs will help to strengthen your case for the possible public impact of the research.
• We will use the ARI document to structure our academic engagement, prioritise events and build new connections with external partners. We will be using our ARIs in our engagement with UKRI, and we will publish any opportunities for funding via our website https://science.police.uk/
Please send any correspondence and questions to [email protected], including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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Sandpit: VoiceYourView -- Making Public Spaces Safer
Individuals experience significantly more stress from the fear of crime than from any direct experience of it. Sources such as Health Canada maintain that the physical environment (e.g. unused and empty spaces, poorly li...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Lancaster University
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on improving the safety of public spaces by mobilizing community feedback and using AI to enhance public safety.
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Policing Academic Centre of Excellence
Lancaster Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (L-PACE) Lancaster University’s case to be recognised as a Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (L-PACE) is based on its world leading reputation for the application of ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Lancaster University
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on crime prevention, including safer physical and online public spaces, and has expertise in evaluating risk mitigation.
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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
Why might this be relevant?
The project investigates how people perceive threats and security in an English town, which partially addresses the question.