Crime and Security Research
This month the Home Office has published a new report discussing ‘opportunity’ as a driver of crime. It considers the value of tackling crime by removing opportunity – particularly the successes evident from using security measures to tackle acquisitive crime. You can read the report here… The Home Office has also released a report evaluating government and law enforcement interventions aimed […]
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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 theoretically-informed work, and edited by our very own Martin Gill, this series will advance new understandings of crime prevention and security management. Visit the Palgrave Macmillan website […]
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Credit card fraud and identify theft are serious problems for both industries and individual consumers. Although safeguards have improved in the last decade, there is an ongoing battle between corporations and cyber criminals over our personal information and financial details. However, recent developments in technology as reported in Optica suggest that these authentication security issues may soon be a thing […]
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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 theoretically-informed work, and edited by our very own Martin Gill, this series will advance new understandings of crime prevention and security management. With this exclusive discount code, you […]
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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 behind in its importance on the political agenda and has not matched the level of public concern. […]
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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 35 dishonest staff who had been dismissed from two large retailers; […]
Read moreThere 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, that way if it is found by someone else it can be […]
Read moreThis 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 are doing to highlight the issue with individuals/businesses and what estimates have been made/assessments […]
Read moreA 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 the country, a fraudster who adopted identities, and theft from employers including someone who stole from a school and two […]
Read moreThe Perpetuity team is internationally renowned for its studies in the field of security and risk. Researchers have been involved in a diverse range of studies including fraud, bribery, shop theft, employee dishonesty, robbery, arson, and money laundering to name but a few. We have also been involved in evaluating solutions as diverse as alarms, CCTV, guards, and property marking […]
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