I help people use data to reduce crime. Associate Professor, Crime Science, UCL. Former police officer.
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Matt Ashby
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Senior detectives leading major investigations (🏴) find organisational causes of stress (eg lack of resources, excessive internal bureaucracy) more stressful than outside causes (eg traumatic events, court delays, poor work–life balance).
Men's professional football matches in London led to real but quite small increases in police use of force in the local area. The typical effect of a match was that there were 0.77 more uses of force in a borough on a match day than would be expected otherwise.
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At the point where people are setting fire to vehicles, those people are either rioters or arsonists, not protestors.
Domestic abuse victims who’re themselves police officers/staff (🏴) report receiving worse support from police than other victims, eg because investigators expect them to be more resilient than other victims, so they’re denied proper support.
My UCL Crime Science colleague Jyoti Belur has set herself quite the challenge to answer this question in her professorial inaugural lecture this evening!
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The experience of domestic abuse victim-survivors who work in policing remains an under-researched issue despite their facing a clear role conflict that could expose them to further private and…
Police personnel wellbeing has been researched academically for several years, yet limited research has focused on specific roles such as detectives. This is despite a growing retention and recruit...
In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.
Some observations:
- Rates of contact with policing differ by age, sex and ethnicity
- Some of that will be a function of institutional and individual officer decision making
- Much will reflect wider inequalities in society
- It's difficult to identify the split
