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12th International Crime Science Conference, Wednesday 4th July 2018
This year's International Crime Science Conference will take place on Wednesday 4th July at the British Library in London. The theme of the conference is Trafficking and exploitation: using science and technology to tackle one of the world's greatest crime problems.
Once again, the conference brings together leading practitioners, policy-makers, private sector organisations and academics to promote interaction, inspiration and innovation.
This year's event will focus on identifying, responding and adapting to the challenges posed by human trafficking and modern slavery in their various forms - including labour exploitation, sexual exploitation and forced criminality such as county lines. Breaking down silos between related fields, the event will also highlight important developments in other organised crimes such as drugs trafficking. Presentations will cover organised crime networks, cybercrime, forensic science, NGO responses, evidence-based policing, cutting-edge technological developments and the use of big data.
The conference programme is below. You can also view speaker profiles and talk abstracts by clicking on the links within the programme.
REGISTRATIONS FOR THIS CONFERENCE HAVE NOW CLOSED
International Crime Science Conference 4th July 2018
Programme
08:30 Registration, refreshments and an opportunity to view the student posters
09:00 Welcome (Auditorium)
| Professor Richard Wortley, UCL Jill Dando Institute |
09:15 Opening plenary (Auditorium)
| Chair: Professor Gloria Laycock, UCL Jill Dando Institute |
| Speakers: Kevin Hyland, OBE, UK's Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and Dr Ella Cockbain, UCL Jill Dando Institute |
10:00 Refreshments and student posters
10:30 Parallel sessions
| Auditorium: Communication technologies and modern slavery | |
| Chair: Dr Lisa Tompson, UCL Jill Dando Institute | |
| Recruiting modern day slaves: the internet as a driver for human trafficking | Dr Ruth McAllister, Ulster University |
| The power of helpline data: maximising impact | Justine Currell, FRSA, Unseen |
| Technology for community resilience | Sarah Brown, Stop the Traffik |
| Brontë Room: At the intersection of licit and illicit work | |
| Chair: Dr Helen Brayley-Morris, Home Office | |
| Policing exploitation: the numbers and the challenges | Sian Bevan, Modern Slavery Police Transformation Unit |
| Hand car washes, informalization and labour exploitation | Professor Ian Clark, Nottingham Business School (NTU) |
| Analysing the 'wok agreement' for Chinese restaurants: how labour traffickers make use of Dutch immigration policies | Dr Masja van Meeteren, Leiden University |
| Eliot Room: Forensic reconstructions: research and practice synergy | |
| Chair: Professor Ruth Morgan, UCL Centre for the Forensic Sciences | |
| Vacuum-packed forensics | Professor Angela Gallop, CBE, Forensic Access Ltd |
| DNA transfer: aspects relevant to forensic investigations | Dr Roland Van Oorschot, Principal RD&I Specialist, Forensic Services Department, Victoria Police |
11:35 Parallel sessions
| Auditorium: New perspectives on trafficking for sex and enforced marriage | |
| Chair: Dr Jyoti Belur, UCL Jill Dando Institute | |
| Professor Geping (Joy) Qiu, China Eastern University of Political Science and Law |
| Female perpetrators of sex trafficking | Dr Miriam Wijkman and Professor Edward Kleemans, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Searching for sex trafficking victims: using a novel link-tracing method among commercial sex-workers in Muzzafarpur, India | Dr Kyle Vincent, independent consultant |
| Internet as an enabler: sexual exploitation and adult services websites | Roy McComb, Deputy Director, National Crime Agency |
| Brontë Room: Community and partnership approaches to tackling trafficking and exploitation | |
| Chair: Dr Amy Thornton, UCL Jill Dando Institute | |
| Predicting harm: the future of safeguarding | Fiona Bohan and Simon Holmes, Safeguarding Analytics Ltd |
| How can Community Safety Partnerships tackle modern slavery and exploitation? | Gary Tallett and Beth Flower, Slough Borough Council |
| Heading back to harm: trafficked and unaccompanied minors going missing from care in the UK | Jane Hunter, Missing People |
| Modern slavery and health | Louise Cahill, NHS Modern Slavery Service Improvement Projects |
| Eliot Room: Inside criminal networks | |
| Chair: Patricio Estevez Soto, UCL Jill Dando Institute | |
| Trust, triads and brokerage: on the formation and evolution of illicit networks | Professor David Bright, Flinders University |
| Illicit trafficking of cigarettes, pharmaceuticals and alcohol in Italy | Aurora Ganz, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) |
| Investigating transnational organised crime through social network analysis | Dr Sanaz Zolghadriha, UCL Jill Dando Institute |
12:50 Lunch and student posters
13:45 Afternoon plenary (Auditorium)
| Chair: Professor Kate Bowers, UCL Jill Dando Institute |
| Speakers: Sir Bernard Silverman, Professor of Modern Slavery Statistics, Nottingham University and Professor Aili Malm, California State University |
14:35 Parallel sessions
| Auditorium: Policing vulnerable communities | |
| Chair: Professor Ben Bradford, UCL Jill Dando Institute | |
| Vulnerability: situational, societal and personal | Danielle Willams, Joint Slavery and Trafficking Analysis Centre, Devon and Cornwall Police |
| Policing vulnerable communities | DI Matt Woodhead, Regional Organised Crime Unit for the West Midlands |
| The role of anti-immigrant sentiment in support for human trafficking policies | Ieke de Vries, Northeastern University (Boston) |
| Brontë Room: Building resilient businesses | |
| Chair: Darryl Dixon, The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority | |
| Building resilient businesses: boardroom perspectives on managing risk | Dr Jamie Saunders, UCL Jill Dando Institute |
| Labour exploitation in the UK's hand car wash industry | Dr Akilah Jardine, The Rights Lab, University of Nottingham |
| Labour exploitation and trafficking as corporate crime: supply chain activities in food production and cleaning services | Dr Natalia Ollus, European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control and Dr Jon Davies, University of Manchester |
| Eliot Room: New developments in detection technologies | |
| Chair: Professor Shane Johnson, UCL Jill Dando Institute | |
| Security sensing using Passive WiFi Technology | Dr Kevin Chetty, UCL Jill Dando Institute |
| Deep Learning for X-ray screening | Dr Lewis Griffin, UCL Computer Science |
| Sensors and detection | Professor Robert Speller, UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering |
15:35 Refreshments and student posters
16:00 Panel discussion (Auditorium):
Are we losing the technology battle against trafficking and exploitation?
| Chair: Professor Jerry Ratcliffe, Temple University |
| Panelists: Justine Currell, FRSA, Unseen, Professor Edward Kleemans, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Jaya Chakrabarti, MBE, TISCreport.org, Roy McComb, Deputy Director, National Crime Agency, and Eric Anderson, Head of Modern Slavery Programme & Senior Consultant - Human Rights, Corporate Affairs at BT |
17:00 Drinks and networking
Getting to the conference
The British Library is well-placed in central London, situated in between Kings Cross St Pancras International and Euston stations. The conference venue is on the right-hand side before the main entrance. There will be a secure cloakroom available at the event.