The University of Nottingham is doing groundbreaking research about how to better extract evidence from mobile phones, by developing new efficient and reliable tools, led by Assistant Professor Helena Webb. This work about the digital economy is a top research priority because personal mobile phones are a very valuable repository…
EMPAC is pleased to be supporting a new Offender Management Pilot, termed ‘7 Pathways Plus’, led by Detective Inspector James Heggs of Leicestershire Police, which offers much promise in reducing long term offending. The work builds on existing approaches, specifically seeking to widen the skills set and capabilities at a…
EMPAC has been chosen to be represented in a new book edited by Professors Steven Tong (Kingston University) and Denise Martin (Abertay University and Associate Director for the Scottish Institute for Policing Research – SIPR). The new 2023 book An Introduction to Police Research, published by Routledge, features a chapter…
University of Leicester Applied Mathematics undergraduate students have been researching hot and cold spots of crime to hunt for patterns about just why crime is lower in some areas than others. Much criminological research of the past has focused on hot spots (high crime areas), but we know less about…