by Ruth Crocker | Dec 30, 2013 | Criminal Justice, Crime Prevention and Community Safety, Publications
As part of the Every Child Matters guidance, public funded bodies must now demonstrate how children and young people participate in the design, delivery and evaluation of the services they use. Leicestershire YOS commissioned Perpetuity to consult with young people...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 30, 2013 | Publications, Security Research Initiative, SRI Publications
The SRI has produced two reports on Procurement of Security. The first contains findings from a research study focussing on those engaged in the buying decision. It raises some interesting findings not least that the security sector believe that procurers often do not...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 30, 2013 | Publications, Security Research Initiative, SRI Publications
Procurers noted that one of the problems for the security sector (and a criticism of it) was that it did not show how it added value and therefore tended to be viewed as an unwelcome cost. Thus the second year of the SRI focussed on the extent to which security could...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 30, 2013 | Publications, Security Research Initiative, SRI Publications
This study was undertaken to gain a better understanding of the view of the security function from those in senior management positions within organisations but not those specialising in security. Not only was security commonly considered as an important function...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 30, 2013 | Publications, Security Research Initiative, SRI Publications
This research looks at how the police and private security industry work together and how the police and corporate security work in partnership, in order to identify the barriers preventing effective partnership initiatives and to establish what opportunities exist....
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 30, 2013 | Publications, Security Research Initiative, SRI Publications
This study identifies how individuals from the security sector view the current state of the sector and examines their perspectives on economic and regulatory changes. The key feature of this study was to design and administer an online survey of the security sector,...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 28, 2013 | Front Page, Publications, Security Research Initiative, Security Toolkits
Surprisingly few organisations have a security strategy in place – and even less have an effective strategy. Our research prior to developing the toolkit had found that only one in three companies have a full, board approved, security strategy. Even when a...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 28, 2013 | Research Project Case Studies
Who for: A transport organisation. Methods: Literature review, evaluation using 5I’s method and ‘realist’ evaluation of context, the collection and analysis of incident data from bus routes, stakeholder interviews with 16 stakeholders at various...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 28, 2013 | Research Project Case Studies
Who for: Retailers. Methods: Literature review, sampling and interviewing of offenders, visits to crime scenes with offenders, filming of offenders at crime scenes, and production of final report. Description: Shoplifters across three continents were interviewed, and...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 28, 2013 | Research Project Case Studies
Who for: (Confidential). Methods: In-depth literature reviews with an international scope and reviews of similar available technology. Description: Perpetuity conducted an in-depth market study to establish end user requirements for a breathalyser for drugs. The...
