Crime and Security Research
Background Perpetuity and the Police foundation are working together on a two-year project investigating the UK response to fraud. This work is founded on previous research carried out by the teams which found that a disproportionate amount of fraud is organised and that it is highly prevalent, for example, between a third and nearly half of all frauds occurring locally in our sample of two police […]
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This Security Research Initiative Report highlights the crucial role that physical security suppliers and corporate security departments play in tackling cyber crime, albeit that this often goes unrecognised. In a survey of both physical security specialists and cyber specialists (supplemented by extensive interviews) 79% thought that physical security was crucial to tackling cyber, but 38% of the sample agreed physical […]
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New research by the Police Foundation and Perpetuity Research has found that between 31% and 45% of fraud may be linked to organised crime. This is up to three times higher than the 15% found in previous studies. The research, which was funded by the Dawes Trust, looked at a large sample of frauds taking place in the Midlands and […]
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Perpetuity are delighted to announce that they have been commissioned by NASUWT to carry out an in-depth study of the experiences of new teachers upon entering the profession. The first phase of the project is due to complete at the end of 2016 and the report will be published here on our website. The project builds on a previous five-year […]
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At a meeting of SRI members in London on the 30th June, the new SRI study was announced. The aim is to produce a ‘Strategy for Change for the Security Sector’. There is a whole range of strategies that guide thinking on a variety of activities, in defence, on policing, in tackling terrorism, fraud and organised come to name but […]
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The Atrium Shopping Centre, Camberly, is the latest shopping centre to be accredited as a Secured Environment. The shopping centre underwent a thorough audit of their security processes and procedures, which included independent consultation with staff, review of key documentation and observation of the security measures and procedures in operation. A key challenge for the centres is to maintain good customer […]
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Secured Environments is a sister accreditation to Secured by Design (SBD). SBD is the trading name of Police Crime Prevention Initiatives Limited. It was set up under the auspices of the Association of Chief Police Officers more than a decade ago and was recently taken over by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) on behalf of the UK Police […]
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The Security Journal series is the world’s premier peer-reviewed security journal affiliated with ASIS International. The 2015 Impact Factor has been released and we are delighted to announce that the Security Journal has increased, receiving a 0.867 for 2015, compared to 0.628 in 2014. The Journal’s 5 year impact factor has also increased from 0.596 in 2014 to 0.879 in 2015. Written in an […]
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Crime Prevention and Security Management book series with Palgrave Macmillan Call for proposals! Would you like to publish in a world-leading crime and security book series, edited by Martin Gill? Submit a book or short Pivot proposal to Josephine.Taylor@palgrave.com About the series It is widely recognised that we live in an increasingly unsafe society, but the study of security and crime […]
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‘Markets in Policing: The Appetite for and Organisational, Cultural and Moral Limits to Markets in Public Policing’ International and Comparative Experiences from Europe and Beyond An ESRC Public Policy Conference 11th & 12th July 2016 Liberty Building, University of Leeds For some time, public policing has been shielded from debates about marketisation and the greater involvement of the […]
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