Crime and Security Research
Cybercrime is all over the news at the moment: in May, ransomware virus WannaCry affected more than 150 countries, attacked more than 300,000 computers and had major impacts on organisations such as the NHS, FedEx, a Chinese police force and the Russian Interior Ministry. Then in June another virus, dubbed NotPetya, hit a dozen countries, attacked around 2,000 computers […]
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Perpetuity Research have completed a study into the use of restorative justice with low level insurance fraudsters. This is the first known Restorative Trial focussing exclusively on this type of offender. The Trial was headed by the City of London Police working in conjunction with insurers. Like most Trials of this nature it provided a number of important learning points. […]
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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 […]
Read moreOne of our associates, Dr Janice Goldstraw-White, will be giving two papers on June 2nd 2014 at the Portsmouth University Counter Fraud Conference. Paper 1: Accounting for crimes – an examination of the motivations, rationality and afterthoughts of convicted fraudsters. Paper 2: Female Fraudsters – a breed apart? The first of these will be a ‘meet the author’ session and will […]
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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. […]
Read moreOUT NOW: A new addition to the Crime Prevention and Security Management series Municipal Policing in the European Union. Daniel Donnelly applies a model of municipal policing to compare a number of police systems in the European Union suggesting that in the future, local communities will have some form of police enforcement mechanism that will not always include the sworn […]
Read moreOUT NOW: A new addition to the Crime Prevention and Security Management series Corporate Manslaughter and Regulatory Reform. Author Paul Almond has written an innovative account of the international emergence of corporate manslaughter offences to criminalise deaths in the workplace during the last twenty years, identifying the limitations of health and safety regulation that have prompted this development. For a […]
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