News & Updates
Meet Ruth Crocker, Our New Research Officer
We are proud to bring you the profile of Ruth Crocker. Joining the team as a Research Officer in our Tunbridge Wells office, Ruth’s main focus is on the Organised Crime project. She received a first class honours degree in Psychology and Sociology from Reading in...
Defend Against Thieves – Penetration Tests
Penetration tests (sometimes referred to as mystery shoplifting) provide an opportunity to test out the effectiveness of security and obtain very specific and first hand feedback about why something worked or did not work. Tests are a way of assessing security from...
Counter Terror Expo – Stall L51
Come and see Perpetuity at the Counter Terror Expo Tuesday and Wednesday this week! Held at London Olympia on the 28th and 29th April 2014. Our stall location is L51. Now in its 6th edition, Counter Terror Expo is the premier international event delivering buyers and...
50% off Crime Prevention and Security Management Series
This series aims to address topics such as: Crime Control policing, security, theft, workplace violence and crime, fear of crime, civil disorder, white collar crime and anti-social behaviour. International in perspective, providing critically and...
Survey Now Closed – Thanks for Your Help
Our security excellence survey is now closed. This years SRI study on security excellence is progressing well. We are asking what does an excellent security contractor look like? And what does an excellent security function look like? One of the most important issues...
New Secured Environments Registrations
We've had a successful month for Secured Environments with three new registrations this month. Bath Spa University, Nottingham Trent University and Marlowes Shopping Centre. This security risk management accreditation is offered by ACPO CPI. The award is focused on...
Perpetuity Welcomes New Staff for Organised Crime Project
The Perpetuity team will be welcoming two new staff members. Sarah Webb, Ruth Crocker will be starting at the beginning of April. Their focus will be on our latest research project: Reducing The Impact of Serious Organised Crime in Local Communities. We are...
New Editions to the Crime Prevention and Security Management Series
The Crime Prevention and Security Management series is a collection of books published by Palgrave Macmillan and edited by Martin Gill. It is widely recognised that we live in an increasingly unsafe society, but the study of security and crime prevention has lagged...
Secured Environments: Promotion Updates
Secured Environments exhibited an ACPO training event this month. Promotion of the Secured Environment award is continuing with the help of the police and many new organisations have registered this month. This security risk management accreditation is offered by...
Security Research Initiative: Call for New Membership
The SRI is supported by ASIS International (UK Chapter), British Security Industry Association (BSIA) and The Security Institute (SyI). Companies sign up for three years. Each year we undertake a study that develops new insights into security practice. Full details of...
Perpetuity Research will be exhibiting at IFSEC International 17-19 June 2014, ExCeL, London, UK
If you’re looking for focused content, features and leading suppliers catering for every security requirement, IFSEC International in London is the only destination for you this June! With a global focus on expertise and guidance, you’ll discover high level security...
FREE Access to Palgrave Macmillan Journals during March
From March 1-31, 2014 Palgrave Macmillan will be running its Access All Areas campaign. All journals, including Security Journal (Edited by Martin Gill and Bonnie Fisher) will be free to view online. Perpetuity Research members and journal contributors are encouraged...
ASIS 13th European Security Conference & Exhibition
Martin Gill will be speaking at the ASIS 13th European Security Conference & Exhibition which is taking place on 1-3 April 2014 in The Hague, Netherlands at the World Forum. The two-day educational programme will feature 44 educational sessions delivered by...
Security Excellence, Please Help Us With Our Survey
This years SRI study on security excellence is progressing well. We are asking what does an excellent security contractor look like? And what does an excellent security function look like? One of the most important issues is to distinguish between what you get from a...
New Project: Reducing the Impact of Serious Organised Crime in Local Communities
We are delighted to report that we are about to start a new project entitled 'Reducing the Impact of Serious Organised Crime in Local Communities'. We are undertaking this work with the Police Foundation. As volume crime continues to fall, concern about serious...
Perpetuity Research: Our New Website
Earlier this month we launched our new website and we would like to welcome you to come and take a look around. You will need to register in order to access our full publications. The new website includes enhanced navigation and search facilitates, along with full...
ASIS Middle East Security Conference and Exhibition
Martin Gill is to be a keynote speaker at the ASIS Middle East Security Conference and Exhibition in Dubai, 16-18 February. he is going to be discussing 'How offenders say they get around security measures: why they say it is easy'. Further details available here on...
Counter Terror Expo 29-30 April 2014, Olympia, London.
Perpetuity Research will be exhibiting at Counter Terror Expo 29-30 April 2014, Olympia, London. Now in its 6th edition, Counter Terror Expo is the premier international event delivering buyers and specifiers from across the world within Government, Military, Law...
Staff Dishonesty
Little is known about the true nature and extent of staff dishonesty as many retailers are reluctant to admit that they have a problem and few have systems in place that enable them to detect the level of loss they have suffered. This study is based on interviews with...
The Illicit Market in Stolen Fast-Moving Consumer Goods – A Global Impact Study
This summary report presents an overview of findings from a research project conducted by PRCI on behalf of The Gillette Company. It concerns the global market in stolen fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and presents a strategic response that involves manufacturers,...
Property Marking
There are all sorts of things that can be attached to goods to make them more difficult to be tampered with, to render them less susceptible to theft or counterfeit. The simplest idea is to attach some form of label or marking that indicates who the owner/seller is,...
ATM Crime
One of the key issues in understanding how to reduce opportunities to commit crime is to understand the offenders' perspectives. This small-scale project is based on interviews with just six people who admitted to committing over one thousand offences, between 52 and...
Organising for Brand Protection
Following the work done on the illicit market (below), PRCI conducted further work into the structures that companies put in place to protect their brands and identify practices that can be used to carry the fight to illicit market operators, as well as the benefits...
Shoplifters on Shop Theft – Implications for Retailers
Shoplifters across three continents have been filmed by academic researchers for the first time as they recreated their crimes. The report, 'Shoplifters on shop theft: implications for retailers' offers fascinating insights into how thieves say they steal and provides...
Security Officers Research
Retail security officers can make a major contribution to an efficient, profitable and safe retail environment however their deployment does not guarantee a crime free store. This summary report outlines key issues that impact upon the effectiveness of uniformed...
Home Security and Place Design
Security has a cost at the point of build or refurbishment. Such benefits as it may confer come later. The means by which such benefits may best be conferred require discussion. This report (Sponsored by ACPO CPI) attempts to discuss the benefits (direct and indirect)...
Identity Theft & Fraud – Learning from the USA
A new report is recommending all consumers be given access to one free credit report per year in order to combat identity theft, one of the UK's fastest growing crimes. The report, Identity Theft and Fraud: Learning from the USA was written by leading criminologist...
Learning from Fraudsters
The report is based on interviews with 16 convicted offenders. The main focus is on people who have stolen large sums from organisations with which they are connected (usually those that they are employed by). Listening to what they have to say facilitates insights...
The Fight Against Identify Fraud: A Brief Study of the EU, the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands
This report is based on a brief review of the response to identity theft in the EU, the Netherlands, France, Germany and the UK. In particular the report focuses on what the current status in law regarding identity theft is in each country, what individual governments...
Learning from Fraudsters – Reinforcing the Message
A second report based on follow-up interviews with fraudsters has been published. The work was undertaken for Protiviti and includes interviews with a range of different types of fraudsters, including those who committed passport frauds and were caught when leaving...