US gun violence: half of people from Chicago witness a shooting by age 40, study suggests

Study following Chicagoans over a 25-year period suggests over half of the city’s Black and Hispanic population, and a quarter of its White population, have

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 9, 2023 ~5 min

Opinion: I spent three years in a paedophile hunting team – here’s what I learned

Professor Mark de Rond from Cambridge Judge Business School discusses his three years embedded with one of the UK's most prolific paedophile hunting teams, in

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 12, 2022 ~5 min


Co-offenders likely to violently turn on one another, UK crime gang study shows

Researchers use over a decade of data from Thames Valley Police to reveal “mechanisms” that generate and sustain violence within networks of organised crime.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 12, 2022 ~6 min

Autistic defendants are being failed by the criminal justice system

The criminal justice system (CJS) is failing autistic people, argue researchers at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, after a survey of

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 15, 2022 ~6 min

Ethnic minorities at much higher risk of homicide in England and Wales

Calculations now familiar from coronavirus coverage – cases per 100,000 people – applied to ethnicity and homicide victimisation in the UK for the first time. 

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 17, 2020 ~5 min

Cannabis farms are a modern slavery 'blind spot' for UK police, study suggests

Migrants arrested for tending plants in the flats, houses and attics where cannabis is grown in bulk are often victims of trafficking and "debt bondage" – yet

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 15, 2020 ~8 min

Police platform patrols create ‘phantom effect’ that cuts crime in Tube stations

A major experiment introducing proactive policing to Underground platforms finds that short bursts of patrolling create a “phantom effect”: 97% of the resulting crime reduction was during periods when police weren’t actually present. 

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Jan. 16, 2020 ~6 min

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

Highly-targeted messaging campaigns from law enforcement can be surprisingly effective at dissuading young gamers from getting involved in cybercrime, a new study has suggested.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 21, 2019 ~5 min


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

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

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 3, 2019 ~5 min

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