SECReT student seminars 2010
- Crime and the decriminalisation of cannabis
- The security research agenda at a global bank
- What is crime science?
- Case study: HSBC-SAS real time global fraud analysis
- Interagency cooperation across the intelligence community
- The dark side of creativity
- The new national police improvement strategy
- Statistics and crime
- Cybersecurity futures
- The work of the FBI lab
- Developing investigative leads through the analysis and interpretation of microscopic trace evidence
- dstl and crime science
- Advances in fingerprint identification
- How cities can be designed to resist infectious diseases
- The UK’s International Counter-Terrorism Strategy
- Exploring the limits of the justice system in reducing harm
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Statistics and crime
Publication date: Mar 7, 2011 10:58:33 AM
Start:
May 25, 2010 11:00:00 AM
End:
May 25, 2010 12:00:00 PM
Location: Brook House
Speaker: Professor Bernard Silverman, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office
Audience: SECReT students
Professor Bernard Silverman, the newly appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office, and leading academic at the Statistics Department at Oxford University, visited UCL SECReT to engage our students in a thought-provoking discussion on how statistics can be compiled and interpreted in a myriad ways to provide data on crime. The talk led to a spirited discussion on how statistical ingenuity can be used either to ‘tweak’ crime figures to make certain crimes appear less prevalent, or to highlight areas of genuine concern which may otherwise be neglected.
