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Crime Solutions has been designated by the Higher Education Funding Council
for England as a Centre for Knowledge Exchange for the anti-crime sector,
operating around the four hubs of:
(1) Detection
Crime Solutions through detection involves the development of new technology and the application of advanced methods of evidence retrieval, investigation or detection.
Typical projects might include:
- internet crime
- evidence gathering
- ageing of evidence
- sensor development
- preservation of fingerprints
- new technology in community strategies
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(2) Investigation
Crime Solutions through Investigation involves improving access to current methods and the sharing of good practice to reduce crime, as well as finding new improved approaches.
Typical activities might include:
- working with offenders
- public awareness meetings
- identify problems and issues
- working with disaffected youths
- addressing drink and drug abuse
- investigation into specific areas of crime, such as gun crime
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(3)Prevention
Crime Solutions through prevention addresses ways of preventing, or disrupting, criminal activity. Typical projects might focus on:
- target hardening
- building design and layout
- assessment of community space
- new thinking on neighbourhood design and integration
- technological development to prevent computer hacking
- offender control and rehabilitation technologies and systems
- facilitation design for partnership working in multi-agency approaches
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(4) Knowledge & Understanding
Crime Solutions through knowledge & understanding involves sharing good practice, encouraging continuing professional development and developing networks. This holistic, multi-disciplinary approach creates new solutions to old problems.
Activities can include:
- expert witness training
- surveys of knowledge on the ground
- evaluation and dissemination of best practice
- magistrate & judicial training in forensic science developments
- new thinking & practice on the role of ethnicity and gender in crime
- breaking patterns and histories of criminal activities through early intervention in multi-agency approaches
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