Investigation (criminal)
Research Topic
Language: English
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Maximising opportunities from digital forensics in relation to crime prevention and detection
- Improving victim and witness interactions with the police service, particularly in relation to violent crime and serious sexual offences
- Constructing secure evidential cases against offenders in a changing technological context.
- Measuring the impact of disruption of organised criminal networks
- Understanding the contribution of forensic techniques to the Criminal Justice System, within investigations and in court, including issues such as attrition of cases in the system.
- What are the needs and experiences of victims, defence witnesses, and those in distressing civil, family, or tribunal cases? How does this vary by protected characteristics, socio-economic or socio-demographic background and jurisdiction?
- Improving understanding of how changes in crime and non-crime demand are affecting how the police respond to incidents.
- Real world threat detection and mitigation capability, ensuring minimal impact on privacy rights. This includes the exploitation of more of the electromagnetic spectrum; compressive sensing; connectivity; use of video analytics; the internet of things; wider use of smart technologies including tracking and remote systems; advanced materials; informatics. ###Threats in the stream of commerce (including people, vehicles, freight, parcels; to detect threats to safety, security, economy, health):
- What are the reasons for case attrition and what works to avoid it, for different case types? What are the impacts of case attrition on victims, particularly for serious violence and sexual abuse cases?
- Understanding the drivers of homicide and serious violence
- Improving investigative outcomes and detection rates, particularly in relation to crime with a digital footprint
- Novel methods of predicting/detecting explosive manufacture.
- Understanding differences in victim satisfaction across London
- How can we better understand flows into the courts and tribunals system, reasons for entry, and the impact of external organisations and their activities?
- First responder capabilities and approaches to decontamination and recovery.
- Supporting officers to adapt to an investigative processes where they have ownership from initial contact through to resolution
- Monitoring and analysing threats and hazards at incident scenes in real time, including the use of multiple and non-traditional sources such as crowd sourcing and social media.
- Wider role of forensics in crime prevention as well as detection, for example in safeguarding.