Crime and Security Research
Last year Perpetuity Research and the Police Foundation completed research regarding the impact of organised crime on local communities. A part of this two-year research project involved exploring the impact of organised crime and child sex exploitation (CSE) in local communities. Perpetuity and the Police Foundation were able to extract information from one police force area regarding children and young […]
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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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New research by Perpetuity Research and the Police Foundation on the impact of organised crime on local communities has found that up to 17% of recorded crime occurring within neighbourhoods could be attributed to organised crime. The majority of organised crime identified by the police in the neighbourhoods related to drugs, violence and fraud. In three neighbourhoods, only 4% of […]
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Research conducted jointly by Perpetuity Research and Police foundation published today shows that organised crime plays a major role in local off-street sex markets. The study, based in Bristol, found that very many of the brothels identified were managed by groups of offenders. What’s the impact of organised crime on the adult sex market? This is what the resesarch […]
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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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A new project Perpetuity Research and The Police Foundation are running a two year project which will focus on helping the police and their partners to work towards identifying strategies to reduce the impact of serious organised crime in local communities. Bridging the knowledge gap As volume crime continues to fall, concern about serious organised crime, which is costly, harmful and widespread, is rising. Organised crime […]
Read moreHaving previously worked with Perpetuity as a valued associate, we are delighted to welcome Sarah as an official member of the Perpetuity Research team on the Organised Crime Project. Sarah Webb has been a social research and evaluation consultant since 1995. Sarah has completed a number of significant projects for government departments, local authorities, and national umbrella organisations mainly involving […]
Read moreWe 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 2008. Since then she has worked as an Intelligence Analyst with Kent Police for 5 […]
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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 undertaking this work with the Police Foundation. As volume crime continues to fall, concern about serious organised […]
Read moreOn November 5th Martin Gill and Sarah Webb attended a conference organised by The Police Foundation on organised crime. Martin gave a talk with Ian Davidson on the role of money laundering legislation generally and financial investigation specifically in tackling organised crime. Amongst many interesting talks Martin Hewitt from the Metropolitan Police spoke about the police respite and noted that […]
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