The Centre for Global City Policing is an independent centre based at the UCL Jill Dando Institute @UCLCrimeScience.
London, UK.
Joined August 2020
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40 fully funded PhD scholarships available at @UCL for students from any country via the new Research Excellence Scholarship scheme ucl.ac.uk/scholarships/resea… Deadline Jan 13th. @DrZoeWaller @profgeraintrees @duncancraigucl #phdchat
We have a new chapter out now in Policing & Firearms: New Perspective and Insights. @JuliaYesberg and @ben1971b find that trust, political orientation and ethnicity are the strongest predictors of reactions to armed police
#Newbook alert! Read different viewpoints on the #gundebate and become informed on the need and effects guns have. Get it here: bit.ly/3h0JYqR
New #openaccess paper out now in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Zoë Hobson, @juliayesberg and @ben1971 looked at the preventative effect of knife imagery in media campaigns and found no effect, but seeing knife imagery did make people think about death journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Public service announcement. The Institute for Global City Policing is now the Centre for Global City Policing. Purely for boring bureaucratic reasons. Our work continues as before! @UCLCrimeScience
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New paper from Zoe Hobson @JuliaYesberg and me looking at the preventative effect of knife imagery in media campaigns. TL;DR no effect, really, but they do make people think of death. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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You are warmly invited to the
@IGCP_UCL @CCCUPolRes
'London Policing Seminar Series'. PLEASE SHARE
The seminar is entitled 'Policing Guns and Violence in the USA'?' Tuesday 14th December, 14:00-16:00 GMT(on zoom)
Register for our upcoming seminar in the London Policing Seminar Series Autumn 2021 'Global perspectives on policing and legitimacy' with Dr Justice Tankebe, Dr Layla Skinns, and Dr Thiago R Oliveira on 12 October 2021, 1400-1600. Register below:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-pe…
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New open access paper from Zoe Hobson @JuliaYesberg @jacksojp and me on why people may or may not trust policing decisions made by algorithms. TL;DR - it's a little complicated! link.springer.com/article/10…
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Together with @Cambridge_Uni, we were recently asked to assess the impact of the new Knife Crime Prevention Orders. Here is some insight into what our @IGCP_UCL researchers and other criminal justice stakeholders are doing: buff.ly/3iU6ccG
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Reminder📣our next seminar in the London Policing Seminar Series 2021 on police training and recruitment is today at 2pm BST. Register now and join us! @CCCUPolRes
<Reminder> Our last IGCP-@CCCUPolRes seminar in the London Policing Seminar Series 2021 is *tomorrow*, Wednesday, 09 June, 2pm-4pm. We will discuss direct-entry detectives, police recruitment and training. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-po… and join us!
Reminder📣our next seminar in the London Policing Seminar Series 2021 on police training and recruitment is today at 2pm BST. Register now and join us! @CCCUPolRes
<Reminder> Our last IGCP-@CCCUPolRes seminar in the London Policing Seminar Series 2021 is *tomorrow*, Wednesday, 09 June, 2pm-4pm. We will discuss direct-entry detectives, police recruitment and training. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-po… and join us!
Don't forget to join us tomorrow for our last seminar in the London Policing Seminar Series! Register using the link below👇
<Reminder> Our last IGCP-@CCCUPolRes seminar in the London Policing Seminar Series 2021 is *tomorrow*, Wednesday, 09 June, 2pm-4pm. We will discuss direct-entry detectives, police recruitment and training. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-po… and join us!
<Reminder> Our last IGCP-@CCCUPolRes seminar in the London Policing Seminar Series 2021 is *tomorrow*, Wednesday, 09 June, 2pm-4pm. We will discuss direct-entry detectives, police recruitment and training. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-po… and join us!
<Mark your calendars> Our last IGCP-@CCCUPolRes seminar in the London Policing Seminar Series 2021 is this Wednesday, 09 June, at 2pm-4pm. We will discuss direct entry detectives, police recruitment of ethnic minorities, and training. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-po….
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Different groups are searched at different rates – men aged 18-24 identifying as Black were on-average 19 times more likely to be searched than the population at large. The reasons for this are likely to be a complex mix of different factors, with no single cause.
ALT Bar chart showing rates at which different demographic groups are searched
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Our updated @IGCP_UCL analysis of #stopandsearch in London, now covering the year 2020, shows the annual number of searches increased above 300,000 for the first year since 2013.
#stopsearch Report: bit.ly/stop-search-london-20…
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ALT Cover image for stop and search report
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ICCT is proud to announce that new members have joined our journal’s editorial board. Read more about writing for ICCT’s journal and our editorial board: icct.nl/update/editorial-boa…
We are facing some technical difficulties but will be starting this webinar in a moment. Stay tuned!
Happening tomorrow! Our next event in the London Policing Seminar Series 2021: 'The Legitimacy of Undercover Policing'
Dr Christophe Nathan, @warwickuni
DSI Raj Mahajan, London Metropolitan Police
Prof Gary Marx, MIT
05 April 2021, 1400-1600 BST
Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-po…
