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All in Publications
Violence Research Group Publish Report on Serious Violence Figures for 2017
Despite the recent spate of knife violence and homicide in London, the national picture of serious violence for 2017 remains largely the same as the previous year
Briefing Paper: Digital Influence Engineering
The Universities' Police Science Institute's latest briefing paper summarises research on the science of influence to show how various techniques are employed in digital communications environments.
Crime and Security Research Institute Funds New Research into Domestic Violence
There has been almost no innovation in the area of work with perpetrators of domestic violence and abuse in the past 10 years.
Are drunk tanks the answer to UK’s problem of intoxicated revellers?
As the festive season gets underway, and the number of revellers in our town and city centres rises sharply, researchers at Cardiff and Sheffield Universities are assessing whether bespoke treatment services are an effective way of treating acutely intoxicated people and lessening the burden on overstretched emergency care services.
Managing alcohol-related attendances in emergency care: can diversion to bespoke services lessen the burden?
As the festive season gets underway, and the number of revellers in our town and city centres rises sharply, researchers at Cardiff and Sheffield Universities are assessing whether bespoke treatment services are an effective way of treating acutely intoxicated people and lessening the burden on overstretched emergency care services.
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International Technology Alliance in Distributed Analytics & Information Science [DAIS ITA]
The International Technology Alliance in Distributed Analytics and Information Science (DAIS ITA) is a joint US/UK research programme set up to unlock the potential of “big data” in front line situations, where people and computer systems need to collaborate in a coalition of multiple agencies.
Have a Word: Preventing Offending, Injury and Victimisation through Motivational Advice in Criminal Justice and Health Services
A series of randomised trials carried out with research partners by the Violence Research Group showed that screening for and brief advice on alcohol misuse..
Preventing Violence Using Unique Information from Emergency Health Services – the Cardiff Model
Controlled trials carried out by the Violence Research Group have shown that violence can be reduced more effectively if prevention is based on information collected in emergency departments as well as on police intelligence.
Communications Policing is the new Community Policing
Collaborative research between Cardiff University academics and the police has found that current UK policing approaches to social media analytics are fragmented and struggling to keep up with technological advances and their disruptive social impacts.
The Future of Crime Prevention
The Crime and Security Research Insitute, as part of the College of Policing's Commissioned Partnership Programme, has carried out 4 primary research studies looking at how crime is continually advancing in volume and sophistication and how future crime prevention must be designed with this in mind.
The Response of, and on, Twitter to the Release of Dabiq Issue 15
On 10 and 11 April 2017, Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) hosted its first high-level Conference on Online Terrorist Propaganda. On this occasion, over 150 participants gathered at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague to discuss a wide variety of topics pertaining to the online terrorist threat.
Terrorists' Use of the Internet, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series Vol 136
Writing in the NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, CSRI Researcher Daniel Grinnell explores how post-event open source media analysis can provide new insights to usefully inform the work of strategic and operational decision makers.
Policing and Public Health — Strategies for Collaboration
Policing and public health have largely been perceived by clinicians, researchers, and policy makers as 2 entirely separate approaches to reducing violence.
Police Communications and Social Media
This report aims to conceptualise and evaluate the affordances of Web 2.0 social media tools in respect of the communication functions of the police and to document the role of social media (‘SM’) in police communications in forces in England and Wales.
Understanding The Policy Context For Open Source Communications Analytics:
Open Source Communications, Analytics Research Development Centre publish first in series of Working Papers
After Woolwich: Analyzing Open Source Communications to Understand the Interactive and Multi-Polar Dynamics of The Arc of Conflict
New paper by Colin Roberts, Martin Innes, Alun Preece and David Rogers published in the British Journal of Criminology, Oxford University Press
Nudges, Tugs and Teachable Moments: What can a Cartoon Cat teach us about changing people’s crime prevention behaviour?
Crime prevention messages aimed at the public typically adopt a ‘fear frame’ – trying to scare people into changing their behaviour, and in doing so potentially fuelling the public’s fear of crime. This study aimed to develop new evidence and insights about what works to persuade people to adopt new security behaviours that better protect them from crime risks.