The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science

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The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science

• Agenda
• What we do
• Who we are
• What research money we have attracted
• Our publications and profile
• Our international contacts
• Our plans

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Medical Science and Crime Science
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What we do

• Research on the prevention and detection of
• Crime (from child abuse to organised crime)
• Disorder
• Anti-social behaviour
• Terrorism
• Teaching Masters course and associated UCL post
  graduate courses plus various short courses

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Training

• Postgraduate courses 30 students in 2004/05
• MSc in Crime Science
• Diploma in Crime Prevention
• Certificate in Crime Prevention
• Certificate in Crime Detection (new for 2005)
• Short courses
• 5-day training for crime analysts
• Advanced 1-day courses for analysts in GIS
• One-day masterclasses for
• Senior police officers, and
• Policy makers

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JDI Staff

• 1 HEFC funded post
• 8 staff funded through Jill Dando Fund
• Remainder (13) on short term contracts
• Includes 5 staff located at a Crime Science
  laboratory in West Midlands Police

• Senior staff academic backgrounds
• Mathematics (2 x BSc)
• Statistics (1 x BSc)
• Computer Science (2 x BSc)
• Artificial intelligence (1x BSc)
• Psychology (2 x MSc, 2 x PhD)
• Geography and GIS (1 x BSc and MSc)
• Urban Planning (1 x PhD)
• Criminology (1 x PhD)

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MSc student backgrounds

• Biology
• Computer Science
• Geography
• Accounting
• Philosophy
• Law x 4
• Psychology x 3
• War studies
• Criminology

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Research Funding

• Over 3 million pounds in external research
  funding since 2001- this excludes JD fund, short
  course income and UCL teaching fees
• Mainly brought in by 6 senior staff (1 is HEFCE
  funded)
• Nearly all expenditure on salaries - not
  equipment
• Increasing number of research charities and
  research council funded grants
• Large scale EU bids are currently submitted
• Bids totalling over 2 million currently under
  consideration or in planning

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research income by year
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Source of funds
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Dissemination

• RAE census period 2001 current date
• 45 peer-reviewed publications (across 20
  different journals)
• 16 book chapters
• Crime science book series with
• 2 edited books
• 1 authored book
• 1 special journal edition and one issue of
  British Journal of Criminology in progress
• Over 100 invited conference presentations at
  international meetings covering Australia,
  Brazil, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Italy,
  Spain, Greece, USA, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands
  and Chile

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Media coverage

• Printed TV and Radio
• Economist - BBC TV and radio news
• New Scientist - ITN news
• Nature online - BBC regional TV and radio
• Royal Statistical Society - Radio 5 live
• Guardian - BBC 24 news
• Daily Mail - Sky News
• Mirror - The Commission, Radio 4
• Independent - The Moral Maze
• Express - Channel 4 news

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National Consultancies and Invited Lectures
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International Scientific Collaboration

• EPSRC funded Crime Science Network
• 60k over three years for an International Crime
  Science Network
• British Academy funded International
  Collaborative Network
• Partners from JDI_at_UCL, Netherlands and USA with
  experts in
• Geography
• Statistics
• Epidemiology
• Computer Science
• Mathematics and simulation modelling
• Psychology

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International Scientific Collaboration

• 10th Annual Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous
  Interacting Agents
• Mathematics and complex systems
• New Emerging Trends in Applied Mathematics
  workshop (Firenze and Oxford), funded by the
  European Commission
• Mathematics and physics

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3rd National Crime Mapping Conference

• Sponsors and supporters
• Government and Industry
• - Home Office, ACPO, PITO, Ordnance Survey
• - All the main GIS companies
• Speakers
• - Hazel Blears MP
• - From Senior Civil Servants to Crime Analysts
• - UK, USA, Australia, Netherlands, Sweden

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Visitors to JDI (2001- 2005)

• Practitioners/policy makers from
• Taiwan, New Zealand, Mexico, Australia, Sweden

• Academics from
• Australia, US, Chile, Norway, Sweden

• Policy briefings to Labour, Conservative and
  Liberal Democrats

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Our Plans

• Moving to Brook House at end of April and
  better connecting with UCL
• New business plan
• Strategic relationship with the MPD to include
  major teaching contract for their 400 analysts
• Five star or equivalent in next RAE

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