This event was held as part of the SMF’s ESRC sponsored Chalk + Talk series with Gloria Laycock.
Gloria was a researcher in the Home Office for many years, leaving as Head of the Home Office Police Research Group for a fellowship in the USA, before coming to UCL as Director of the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science and running UCL’s Centre for Security & Crime Science.
You can listen to a recording of Professor Laycock’s session below, you can read our summary blog here, and you can download slides from the presentation here.
Speaker:
Gloria Laycock, Professor of Crime Science, University College London
Everyone has an opinion on how we should control crime – and most of the time it is far from evidence-based. We now know a great deal more about the facts of crime reduction than we think we do – but the facts seldom seem to penetrate crime policy or practice.