Can algorithms tackle anti-social behaviour? Given all the crime and other data out there, what are the prospects for profiling, finding patterns between crimes, and even predicting crime? Good, judging by the varied speakers at the international crime and intelligence analysis conference in Manchester on February 26 and 27.
Topics include shop theft, robbery and burglary, and social media (to investigate organised crime). Chris Emberson, of Innovation Mapping, and Olivia Powell, of Avon and Somerset Police will ask if there’s a link between dimming street lamps at night – typically in recent years to save public money – and crime. Among opening speakers are Prof Gloria Laycock of University College London (UCL), asking, ‘what really reduces crime’? She is director of the Commissioned Partnership Programme supporting the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction. The event, hosted by UCL’s Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, is running with the International Association of Crime Analysts (IACA) and the UK and Ireland Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (ACIA).
Visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jdi/events/int-CIA-conf.
