by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Sep 22, 2015 | Blog, Front Page, News, Research
Voice phishing (commonly referred to as vishing) is the criminal practice of using social engineering over the phone to gain access to victims’ personal and financial information in order to defraud them. Fraudsters often pose as bank staff or police officers, and can...
by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Sep 22, 2015 | Blog, Front Page, Journals, News, Research
Professor Martin Gill and Paul Ekblom have just had their article ‘Rewriting the Script: Cross-Disciplinary Exploration and Conceptual Consolidation of the Procedural Analysis of Crime’ published in the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research....
by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Sep 22, 2015 | Blog, Front Page, Journals, News
‘Safety and Security In Transit Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach’ is the latest addition to Professor Martin Gill’s Crime Prevention and Security Management series. Edited by Vania Ceccato and Andrew Newton, the book presents important...
by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Sep 21, 2015 | Front Page, Publications, Research, Security & Risk, Security Research Initiative, SRI Publications
In both corporate security departments and amongst security suppliers, there has been a very narrow focus on the benefits from services provided; in fact most often that focus has been on security benefits. But there is evidence that a host of other (non-security)...
by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Aug 19, 2015 | Blog, Front Page, News, Research
The What Works Centre has listed a new intervention on their What Works Crime Reduction Toolkit, which focusses on Transferring youths to the adult criminal justice system. The research analyses whether youths who are transferred from a young offenders institution to...
