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UK policing: psychological damage among officers heightened by bad working conditions

19 Oct 2022
Nationwide study of over 12,000 officers suggests rates of trauma-induced disorder Complex PTSD are exacerbated by factors such as too little time and...
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Co-offenders likely to violently turn on one another, UK crime gang study shows

12 Apr 2022
Researchers use over a decade of data from Thames Valley Police to reveal 'mechanisms' that generate and sustain violence within networks of organised...
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Ethnic minorities at much higher risk of homicide in England and Wales

17 Nov 2020
Calculations now familiar from coronavirus coverage – cases per 100,000 people – applied to ethnicity and homicide victimisation in the UK for the...
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Lockdown 'helps fuel rise in cybercrime'

03 Jun 2020
Take extra care before buying face masks or testing kits online, or responding to texts apparently sent to you by the UK Government or the NHS...
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Police platform patrols create ‘phantom effect’ that cuts crime in Tube stations

16 Jan 2020
A major experiment introducing proactive policing to Underground platforms finds that short bursts of patrolling create a 'phantom effect': 97% of the...
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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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Carrying Tasers increases police use of force, study finds

20 Dec 2018
Cambridge experiment with City of London police found that, while rarely deployed, just the presence of electroshock devices led to greater overall...
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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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