UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science

Security technology and the human dimension

Chair: Professor Richard Wortley, UCL

• The security function framework for design. Professor Paul Ekblom, Central St Martins

• Security technology ethics. Gus Hosein, Privacy International
  

Chair: Professor Richard Wortley

• Nicholas Alston: a member of the JDI Advisory Board and strategic advisor to Digital Barriers plc. Formerly Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Office of Global Security.

Protecting critical infrastructure
Chair: Dr Hervé Borrion, UCL

• A novel technique for nuclear security vulnerability assessments. Jeremy Davison, National Nuclear Labs
• Smart sensoring for critical national infrastructure. Dr Ed Klinger, CNIGuard

Cyber security: the most critical crime and security challenge today
Chair: Tony Dyhouse, ICT Knowledge Transfer Network

• The analysis and value of Internet information. Richard Cambridge, QinetiQ

• Crypto, clouds and information forensics overload. Andy Clark, Primary Key Associates Ltd

• New perspectives for the criminal use of the Internet. Dr Kacper Gradon, University of Warsaw
  

Using technology to improve policing
Chair: Shaun Mallinson, NPIA

• Metal theft-a worldwide problem, Phil Cleary, Smartwater Technologies Ltd

• The crime scene as a source of analytical data. Krystian Wojciechowski, Polish National Police Force
  

• Supporting police transformation – an industry perspective. David Carroll, SAS Public Security

BIOGRAPHY

Nick is a strategic adviser to Digital Barriers plc and a member of the Board of the Jill Dando Institute.

Nick read natural sciences at Cambridge and lectured in materials science as a Royal Naval officer before starting a 29 year career as a British Government security policy and operations specialist. He gained extensive experience of many aspects of security and was closely involved in the management of security technology programmes. In 1999 he helped launch the National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (NISCC), the predecessor of the Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure (CPNI).

In 2006 Nick left government service to join Goldman Sachs where he served as a Managing Director in the Office of Global Security based both in Europe and in the Far East. He retired earlier this year. Nick was appointed CBE in 1997 in recognition of services to the Ministry of Defence.  

ABSTRACT

In a short presentation Nick will review relationships between those involved in security and crime science and other stake holders including government, the security industries and corporates. He will pose questions about the effectiveness of these relationships, ask if research is addressing all the areas where it is needed and highlight the opportunity for the Board of the Jill Dando Institute to make a positive contribution.

BIOGRAPHY

Prof. Jim Austin is the Professor of Neural Computation in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York, UK where he directs the Advanced Computer Architectures Group. He has worked in pattern recognition and neural networks for over 25 years and has published over 300 papers on this and related subjects. He has worked on 3D facial biometric systems for over 10 years developing the FaceEnforce system marked by Cybula Ltd.

ABSTRACT

This talk will discuss the application and maturity of 3D imaging methods for facial biometrics. 3D methods are known to outperform 2D based methods on images from cluttered and unconstrained environments, but have failed to make a real impact. With low cost devices such as the Microsoft Kinect camera, this may be about to change? The talk will describe the benefits of the approaches and compare the current range of available technology.

BIOGRAPHY

A.P.A. (Ton) BROEDERS (MA, PhD) received an MA degree (cum laude) in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Nijmegen, where he subsequently taught Phonetics and Linguistics from 1972 until 1988, when he was asked to set up a forensic phonetics and linguistics facility at the Netherlands Forensic Institute in The Hague, where he was subsequently appointed Head of the Department of Handwriting, Speech and Document Examination (1996-2001) and held the position of Chief Scientist (2002-2007).

In 2003 he received his PhD from the University of Leiden for a dissertation entitled In Search of the Source: An Exploration of the Basic Principles of Criminalistics and the Evaluation of Forensic Evidence, for which he was awarded the Prof. A.E.J. Modderman Prize for criminal law dissertations in 2006. In 2004 he was appointed to the chair of Criminalistics at the University of Leiden. In 2007 he was also appointed Professor of Criminalistics at the University of Maastricht, and Scientific Director of the The Maastricht Forensic Institute.

He is a founder member and former Executive Committee member of IAFPA (International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics) and from 1998 to 2002 was the (first) chair of the ENFSI Expert Working Group for Forensic Speech and Audio Analysis. He is a member of the editorial board of The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. In addition to acting as court-appointed expert in hundreds of cases in the Netherlands, he has testified in Mauritius and for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague (twice).

ABSTRACT

In the UK, as well as in other criminal justice systems, forensic experts are increasingly using a logical approach to evidence evaluation, also referred to as ‘the Bayesian approach’. One of the virtues of this approach is its strict separation of the type of question that belongs to the domain of the expert as opposed to that of the trier of fact. The recent judgment by the Court of Appeal in R v T. [2010] (EWCA Crim 2439) strikes at the heart of this approach, in stating that ‘the practice of using a Bayesian approach and likelihood ratios to formulate opinions placed before a jury without that process being disclosed and debated in court is contrary to principles of open justice’.

While one may disagree with some of the views expressed in this judgment, recent research conducted in the Netherlands suggests that the evaluative opinions expressed in the Bayesian format are likely to be misunderstood not only by defence lawyers and judges but by forensic experts themselves. The least one can say is that their continued use requires a major educational effort if structural miscommunication between experts and triers of fact is to be avoided.

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BIOGRAPHY

David is the regional sales manager at SAS Public Security with responsibility for the UK, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. His main focus is the expansion of SAS public security’s police and criminal justice footprint in these territories.

David joined Memex Technology in 2007 as UK sales director, with responsibility for sales to government and commercial sectors. He was subsequently appointed Europe, Middle East and Africa sales director, with responsibility for sales, service delivery and customer support outside of the Americas.  Upon the acquisition of Memex by SAS, and the subsequent formation of SAS Public Security in July 2011, he was appointed regional sales manager.

David has 12 years’ experience in public and private sector technology sales, predominantly within the domestic and international homeland security marketplace and in intelligence solutions. He previously held business development and sales positions at listed and private companies within the security and telecommunications sectors. He has also delivered security consultancy and training to multinational corporations and global media organisations in high-risk environments such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

Prior to embarking upon a career in business, David had an operational career within the Armed Forces. David holds a BEng (Hons) in mechanical engineering with alternative energy systems from the University of Strathclyde. He is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and the Army Junior Command and Staff College.

ABSTRACT

Police transformation will generate new frameworks for the delivery of shared services and outsourcing. The most apparent manifestation of change will be in the creation of streamlined back and middle offices, and improved efficiency within front-line policing. Whilst debate is focused upon the fiscal challenges presented by the CSR, significant opportunities are presented by common systems, mobile technologies, social media networks and analytics. Technology has the potential to make a significant contribution towards the goals of efficiency generation, crime prevention, and increased public participation. This contribution should form part of the current debate, and should not be viewed as something for ‘better days that lie ahead’. David Carroll from SAS Public Security will examine the contribution that Technology can play, and will argue that a key pre-requisite to progress is a radical transformation in the partnership between policing and industry.

BIOGRAPHY

Andrew is a Director of Primary Key Associates Limited, a multidisciplinary team that specialises in addressing a wide range of challenges from physical to cyber security.  His current interests include investigating the continually evolving nature of cyber threats to both commercial and national bodies and establishing a framework for response.

He spent over four years as Head of Forensics at Detica, prior to that he spent nearly five years as a Director of Inforenz, a forensics company that Detica acquired in 2006.

He has worked in security related industries since 1984.  His work has included designing security architectures for large multi-national clients, designing cryptographic systems for protecting Internet-based financial transactions, managing the development of secure messaging products and forensically analysing a wide range of computer systems networks and media for various criminal and civil cases.  He has been instructed as an expert witness in matters of IT system and computer forensics since 1996.  He has given expert evidence in both criminal and civil matters in Magistrates, Crown and High Courts.

He is a Director and Trustee of the Codes and Ciphers Heritage Trust, a charity that is developing the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.

ABSTRACT

The task of the information forensics professional is becoming increasingly challenging.  The widespread use of strong cryptography means that conventional means of data imaging are becoming less effective.  Data stored in “the cloud” are not routinely accessible to investigators, and the opportunities for data hiding on personal devices evolve as quickly as the devices themselves.
In this talk we shall discuss how the pace of technological developments in computing is changing the behaviours of criminals.  We will consider how built in security  can make what were once simple and quick investigative processes hard and time consuming, and we will discuss how the diversity of information sources, while seeming an advantage to the forensics professional, can lead rapidly to “forensics overload”.  Finally we will review the practice of anti forensics which has means that forensics professionals’ work is no longer like looking for a needle in a haystack, but more like looking for a needle in a needle factory.

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BIOGRAPHY

Jeremy is the Head of Security for the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL). The NNL has a number of laboratories some working with a range of nuclear materials at various sites. Being responsible for the physical, personnel and information security of the NNL provides its challenges however close interactions with stakeholders both in government and in the wider community, along with the use of proportionate security measures and technical solutions where appropriate, has enabled continuous improvement and a good security awareness culture to be maintained.

Jeremy has a technical background being a nuclear fuel cycle technologist with experience in nuclear fuel manufacturing, transport, reprocessing and reactors working in the industry since 1995 and brings this experience to bear in his current role in security.

ABSTRACT

As the threats to sensitive facilities increase and continue to evolve, the need for assurance that these threats are adequately countered is becoming ever more important to those responsible for the management of those facilities.

Whilst there will always be a place for trained and experienced security professionals to provide advice and confirmation that the security measures are believed to be appropriate to the threat, this advice by its very nature will always be subjective.
The National Nuclear Laboratory is in the early stages of piloting the use of Security Vulnerability modelling technology to allow multiple threat scenarios to be modelled and analysed and provide quantitative data upon which judgements can then be made.

The session will detail the approach used, some of the challenges faced and the benefits of using such novel technology in the UK.

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BIOGRAPHY

Paul Ekblom read psychology and gained his PhD at University College London. As a researcher in the UK Home Office for many years, Paul worked on the full range of crime prevention projects; also horizon-scanning; design against crime and developing the professional discipline and knowledge management of crime prevention. Paul has worked internationally with EU Crime Prevention Network, Europol, UN and Council of Europe. He is currently Professor and Co-Director of the University of the Arts London Research Centre on Design Against Crime, based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Here, he works on design and evaluation of products, places, systems and communications as well as continuing to develop practical conceptual frameworks for general crime prevention and counter-terrorism. Both fields are covered on www.designagainstcrime.com/methodology-resources/crime-frameworks; wider design against crime material at the main site.
Email: p.ekblom@csm.arts.ac.uk

ABSTRACT

Presented with Sunniva Meyer (in absentia), Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo

How to understand, specify and describe the security function of a product: towards a language and a framework for designing against crime:

Nowadays most objects, systems, communications, services or places are the fruits of professional design. Increasingly, design against crime is part of that process.  This paper focuses on the security function of those products, and how to formally describe both the rationale underlying the design and the immediate output of that process, as working prototypes and production models. The description uses four different discourses – purpose (what is it for and what non-security requirements must it meet?), niche in the security world (what is the product or system protecting – itself and/or something else?), mechanism (how does it work causally?) and technical realisation (how is it constructed/manufactured and how does it operate in practice?).

The paper is illustrated with reference to designs produced at the Design Against Crime Research Centre, and a case study of developing a hypothetical design specification for an explosion-resistant railway carriage.

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BIOGRAPHY

Kacper joined UCL in 2010 as a Visiting Professor funded by the Polish Ministry of Science under the “Scientific Mobility” research grant. In Poland, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw. Both his Masters (2000) and Doctoral (2008, Magna cum Laude) dissertations address the issues of multiple homicide, criminal analysis and offender profiling.

He has nine years of experience teaching Criminology and Forensic Science courses in Poland, United Kingdom, Canada and United States. He has spoken at numerous academic and Police conferences in Europe and North America. Kacper worked for 3 years at the General Headquarters of the Polish National Police, where he participated in the creation of the Criminal Analysis Unit. He also completed the London Metropolitan Police Specialist Operations Training of Hostage Negotiations.

ABSTRACT

The presentation will focus on the new perspectives for the  development of online-based crime. The Internet is described as a new  battlefield, where the criminals and the law enforcement agencies compete  in their fight for domination. The presentation is predictive in nature and it goes beyond the "traditional" illicit use of the Web (i.e. money laundering, financial crime, identity theft, etc.), addressing categories of crime in which the Internet has only recently been used or most likely  will be used in the near future, on all stages of criminal behaviour: preparation for the crime, gathering of information and intelligence, obtaining know-how and instructions, selecting and monitoring the victims, creating links within criminal enterprises or networks, broadcasting  threats or manifestos, preparing alibi, tampering the evidence and  facilitating/orchestrating the actual completion of the crime. The crimes  that the presentation deals with include, but are not limited to, highly diverse acts such as terrorist attacks, school shootings, kidnappings, sexual crimes and stalking, compromising national security and military command & control systems, etc.

The presentation is directed into an assessment of what is an extent of crime in which the perpetrators utilize Internet for their benefit, and also describes the categories of crime in  which the Internet starts to play a crucial role – it is future-oriented, predictive and forecasting in nature. Additionally, the Author diagnoses the practical, applicable means and strategies that could be used by the law enforcement agencies to prevent these types of crime, detect the  perpetrators and combat them. The presentation also takes into account various legal systems in which these strategies would operate as well as issues of privacy rights and personal freedoms, which play a crucial role  in any type of concepts that address enforcing law over the World Wide Web.

BIOGRAPHY

Stewart Hefferman joined OmniPerception in 2009, having been leading protagonist within the biometrics sector for much of the past decade.
Stewart graduated from Glasgow University in 1987 with an honours degree in physics and completed his PhD in physics in 1990, where his work on computer disk drives was funded by a Research Fellowship from IMB’s Almaden Research Centre in San Jose, USA.

Having left academia, Stewart spent four years with EMI before moving to THORN Secure Science, a UK company specialising in developing technologies to protect credit card and paper documents against counterfeiting and fraudulent activities. In 2000, he moved into the biometrics sector as Product Manager for TSSI Systems Limited. This highly successful partnership saw major successes within the, then fledgling, UK biometric industry and within five years Stewart held the position of COO for four years and oversaw the successful deployment of biometric systems in numerous countries and had notable successes deploying smart card and IT systems into the UK National Health Service.

As a keen proponent of the appropriate use of biometrics, Stewart’s move to become CEO of OmniPerception in 2009 has coincided with a rapid uptake in the usage, acceptance and performance of face recognition technologies. Stewart and OmniPerception are now at the forefront of the development and deployment of these technologies in both the consumer and security sectors.


ABSTRACT

The advances in face recognition over the last couple of years has been astonishing.  Products that deliver the benefits of using this form of biometric have, at last, appeared on the market.  These products will help in the fight against crime, but ensuring the technical, environmental and privacy issues are addressed is key to delivering the results demanded. This talk will explore the key practical issues that must be considered when deploying face recognition in real mission critical  nvironments before then covering the data protection and privacy issues that are specific to this form of biometric.

As face recognition becomes even more accurate with new deployments appearing  Throughout the world, it is a welcome fact that the many of the questions surrounding the deployment are sociological, political and environmental rather than technical!  As the demand for, and installations of, city wide surveillance incorporating face recognition, these issues must be examined and considered by biometric manufacturers, systems integrators and users.  Successfully addressing these issues is critical for successful adoption of the technology and hence market growth. One only needs to look at the CCTV market to see how overcoming the privacy and data protection issues can lead to explosive market growth.

BIOGRAPHY

Edward is an engineer with 30 years experience in creating, building and running  global technology companies.  He is founder and CEO of CNIguard which  manufactures smart sensoring systems for critical national infrastructure including water, electricity, oil & gas, and defence sectors.  He is also Chairman of Ozonelink, a homeland security technology incubator.  Previously he was with PwC, Perot Systems, and Pratt & Whitney, and an Adjunct Professor at McGill University.  Edward holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from McGill and an MBA from Wharton.

ABSTRACT

The presentation explores the challenges to protecting vulnerabilities to Critical National Infrastructure (CNI).  Particular attention is focused on solutions incorporating smart sensoring platforms.

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BIOGRAPHY

Alan Pratt is the Home Office’s Director of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET).  He has overarching responsibility for all physical sciences, engineering and technology across the Home Office with specific management responsibility for the Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST), the regulation of forensic science standards, CCTV and the use of animals in scientific procedures.  Alan is also the head of profession for scientists and engineers across the Home Office.

Alan is an expert in surveillance technology with a broad background in applied science.  Having studied physics at Imperial College, Alan joined the Police Scientific Development Branch to develop world leading surveillance technology before becoming Deputy Director and Chief Scientist, then Director of the Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB) providing innovative solutions to policing, security and other Home Office priorities.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Centre for Science and Policy at Cambridge University.

ABSTRACT

The Home Office has wide ranging responsibilities across crime, policing, security, terrorism, borders, migration and identity. Alanwill outline and illustrate the wide range of ways that the Home Office and its partners develop and use science and technology to help protect the public, highlighting where some of the greatest challenges remain.

BIOGRAPHY

Antonios Tsourdos received the Ph.D. degree in robust nonlinear flight control systems design from Cranfield University at the Defence Academy of the UK. He is currently a Professor and the Head of the Autonomous Systems Group, Cranfield Defence and Security, Cranfield University. He is an Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Systems Science, the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers- Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, the International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems and the International Journal Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace (MESA). Professor Tsourdos is a member of the AIAA TC on Guidance, Control, and Navigation, the IEEE TC on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and the IFAC TC on Aerospace Control. He is also member of the Autonomous Systems National Technical Committee and the ADS Autonomous Systems Strategy Group. His research interests include guidance, control and navigation of unmanned autonomous robotics, multiple vehicle reasoning and verification of autonomous systems.

ABSTRACT

Recently autonomous reconnaissance on ground targets by UAV systems becomes a challenging and emerging problem in the area of aerospace and robotics engineering. Using a swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)s has been receiving attention for a variety of applications to take advantage of its inherent flexibility and versatility. The focus of this talk is airborne monitoring of ground traffic behaviour by multiple UAVs in order to detect disguised threats and then to notify the human commander about the potentially dangerous vehicles.

Dr Hervé Borrion is a Lecturer in Security and Crime Science. He developed a strong interest in the application of sensor-based technologies, which led to the award of a doctoral degree in RADAR signal processing from UCL.

In 2005, he joined the department where he been contributing to bringing together a community of academics in the engineering and social sciences around various security projects. His research interest lies in the application of systems modelling techniques to security, and the enhancement of security risk assessment for counter-terrorism and organised crime. He has recently been awarded two European research grants for carrying out projects on resilience of infrastructure and building security (£4m,PI), and surveillance systems for crime prevention in refugees camps (£3m). He was the founding director of the MSc in Countering Terrorism and Organised Crime and the MRes Security Science, and is now the Deputy Director of SECReT. He is a visiting scholar at the Centre for Public Safety Research in Tsinghua University (Beijing).

Dr Kevin Chetty joined the Department of Security and Crime Science as a lecturer in December 2009 from the UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on the application of acoustic and radio-frequency sensors for surveillance and counter terrorism. Current projects include target classification using acoustic micro-Doppler signatures, through-wall imaging, and development of new radar systems that exploit wireless networks to uncooperatively detect and track personnel, vehicle and marine targets.

Kevin undertook his PhD in medical physics at Imperial College London where he investigated new strategies to improve the diagnostic capabilities of gas microbubbles which are used as contrast agents in medical ultrasound imaging. He has experience consulting for both government and industrial organisations such as the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Guidance Microwave. Kevin is also a member of the IEEE and a reviewer for the IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation journal.

Tony took over as Director of the Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network in 2009, continued as Director of the Cyber Security programme within the Digital Systems KTN and now within the ICT KTN.

Tony joined DERA (now QinetiQ) in 2000 and became the Director of QinetiQ’s Operations & Technical Services group, providing a range of managed security services. This role was followed by a spell as Director of the Information Assurance Consultancy group before becoming Director of the Cyber Security KTN. His expertise extends across all areas of Cyber Operations and Information Security, with specialist knowledge in Network Intrusion Detection, Penetration testing, Incident Response and Digital Forensics.

Tony’s early career was with British Gas, ICL and Fujitsu, spanning over 28 years in the IT industry with experience in Telemetry, the operational management of WANs and LANs and various security technologies. Tony works with a range of public and private sector organisations on matters of Cyber Security, as well as being active in several industry forums and strategy groups. He is a regular contributor to BBC television and of published features and articles.

Sheila's first research was in Infrared Interferometry designing a self-filtering device for detecting trace gases in the atmosphere. She then joined the scientific civil service and has worked for the UK Government for 30 years.  For many years she worked in a small team developing new methods for fingerprint recovery which were then introduced into operational use by police forces.  She is the co-author of the first edition of the Manual of Fingerprint Development Techniques. 

She is responsible for the protocol for the use of digital images for still photography for the UK Justice system.  Currently Sheila is the Domain Specialist for drug detection and Identification in the Home Office Centre of Applied Science and Technology and oversees a programme of research and advises the police, UKBA and the prison service.

Robin is Programme Leader for the Advanced Instrumentation activities of the Electronics, Sensors, Photonics KTN. The ESP KTN groups together these underpinning technologies, and more, to make a single entity focused on knowledge sharing for growth. We support our technology communities: and we reach out to bring together people that wouldn’t usually meet, because sometimes the people you need to reach are not other technical people.

Advanced Instrumentation is a cross cutting programme funded by NERC and STFC focusing on innovations in instrumentation that support the economic, environmental and scientific needs of society. We focus on bringing together academia and industry to exploit innovative sensing and enabling technologies in new applications and new forms of instrumentation.

Ruth joined UCL in 2007 having completed a D.Phil in Forensic Geoscience at the University of Oxford. Her research is focussed around the role of physical evidence in the detection of crime. Recently she has carried out work on the transfer and persistence of geoforensic materials (soil, sediment, pollen etc.), and work that has developed guidelines for the practice of forensic geoscience. She has also been working on developing forensic applications of Scanning Electron Microscopy in the analysis of quartz grain surface textures.  Recent work has been presented at a number of international conferences and appeared in New Scientist and the press.

Ruth is the Director of the UCL Centre for the Forensic Sciences which launched in November 2010.  The Centre seeks to facilitate a network of UCL academics from a wide range of different disciplines and departments to enable a strategic and multidisciplinary research programme in collaboration with external partners.

She is a member of the GIMI network (www.macaulay.ac.uk/geoforensic) and the London Geological Society Forensic Geoscience Group Committee (www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/groups/specialist/forensic). She is also a reviewer for forensic geoscience submissions for Forensic Science International.

Nick Ross is a British broadcaster best-known for documentaries, live political debates and the police appeal show Crimewatch which he presented for over 20 years. He coined the term Crime Science and inspired the creation of the UCL Jill Dando Institute (named after a murdered colleague) where he chairs the Board and is a Visiting Professor. He is a trustee of Crimestoppers, was for many years a member of the Advisory Board of Victim Support and has been associated with many crime-related charities and government committees.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminologists. As well as his interest in crime reduction he is president, chairman or a board member of several science, healthcare and bioethics organisations.

 Richard Wortley joined University College London in August 2010 as Director of the Jill Dando Institute for Security and Crime Science, and the Head of the Department of Security and Crime Science. He was previously Head of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University (Australia). He is a psychologist by discipline and is a former Chair of the Australian College of Forensic Psychologists. His research interests centre on the role that immediate environments play in behaviour, especially in criminal, corrupt, and antisocial acts.

He has published widely in the areas of situational crime prevention, with over 50 journal articles and book chapters. He has recent books entitled Situational Prison Control: Crime Prevention in Correctional Institutions, Situational Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (co-edited with Stephen Smallbone), Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (co-edited with Lorraine Mazerolle), Preventing Child Sexual Abuse (co-written with Stephen Smallbone and William Marshall), and Psychological Criminology: An Integrative Approach.

He has been a chief investigator on eight research council-funded projects in Australia in areas including official misconduct in prison, whistleblowing in the public sector, child sexual abuse, the investigation of Internet child exploitation, and intimate partner homicide.