"Crime prevention is the ability to understand and respond to drivers and inhibitors of crime, including crowd management, public trust, mental health and wellbeing.
Policing are interested in identifying both where further testing of crime prevention initiatives is needed and where initiatives may be having disproportionate impacts that are biased or discriminatory. Furthermore, policing are interested in crime prevention approaches that consider the breadth of public services and, in doing so, help root policing’s role in public health responses."
"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 csa@npcc.police.uk, including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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
The project focuses on evidence-based crime reduction and assessing the impact of crime prevention initiatives.
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
The project addresses crime patterns and citizen perceptions but does not specifically focus on assessing the benefits of crime prevention initiatives.
There is probably no other scientific endeavour more relevant to the field of Criminology than to count crime accurately. Crime estimates are central to policy. They are used in the allocation of police resources, and mo...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Surrey
The project focuses on improving the accuracy of crime estimates but does not directly address assessing the benefits of crime prevention initiatives.