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Prevention better than cure at keeping young users from getting involved in cybercrime

21 Oct 2019

Highly-targeted messaging campaigns from law enforcement can be surprisingly effective at dissuading young gamers from getting involved in cybercrime...

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Criminals, miscreants and misdemeanours

12 Jun 2019

Two centuries of Isle of Ely court records illuminate the darkest corners of the region's past.

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Brexit puts UK’s ability to tackle drug-related crime at risk, say experts

03 May 2019

Brexit could threaten the UK’s ability to tackle drug-related crime linked to serious and organised crime, according to public health experts writing...

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Knife crime: assault data can help forecast fatal stabbings

12 Apr 2019

Knife crime data from a 12-month period could be used to help forecast the London neighbourhoods most likely to suffer a fatal stabbing the following...

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Justice of the East: research on crime and rehabilitation in our region

12 Mar 2019

From Fenland delinquency to policing Peterborough’s streets and the power of prison education, researchers from the Institute of Criminology are...

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Muslims leaving prison talk about the layers of their lives

15 Aug 2018

The Lammy Review in 2017 drew attention to inequalities among black, Asian and minority ethnic people in the criminal justice system. It also flagged...

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Helping police make custody decisions using artificial intelligence

26 Feb 2018

Police at the “front line” of difficult risk-based judgements are trialling an AI system trained by University of Cambridge criminologists to give...

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Domestic abuse ‘workshops’ reduce repeat offending and harm to public – study

16 Aug 2017

First UK experiment on policing domestic abuse finds fewer men reoffending against partners – and reoffenders causing less harm to victims – when...

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Opinion: We could soon face a robot crimewave … the law needs to be ready

16 Apr 2017

Are robots capable of committing crime? Yes, says Christopher Markou, PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law, writing for The Conversation - but what...

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Combating cybercrime when there's plenty of phish in the sea

21 Oct 2016

As more and more crime moves online, computer scientists, criminologists and legal academics have joined forces in Cambridge to improve our...

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Policing: two officers ‘on the beat’ prevent 86 assaults and save thousands in prison costs

14 Jun 2016

The results of a major criminology experiment in Peterborough suggest that investing in proactive PCSO foot patrols targeting crime ‘hot spots’ could...

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Body-worn cameras associated with increased assaults against police, and increase in use-of-force if officers choose when to activate cameras

17 May 2016

Preliminary results from eight UK and US police forces reveal rates of assault against officers are 15% higher when they use body-worn cameras. The...

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