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Professor Andy Newton's Inaugural Lecture

Urban mobility and crime: (Not) all roads lead to Rome

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In this lecture Professor Andy Newton reveals some of his insights from 20 years research into crime and place. Andy will draw from his work on examining patterns of crime on the public transport network, on understanding acquisitive crime, and exploring violence in public places. He will also reflect on some of the obstacles for academics when collaborating with police forces, community safety partners, the voluntary sector, and local and national government - acknowledging this is a two-way issue! Andy will discuss recent efforts to develop toolkits to better inform policy makers decisions about place-based approach to crime prevention and also reflect on the need to bring local communities into this process. Indeed, if we are going to take a place-based approach to crime reduction – then how can we try and make this more sustainable?

  • From: Tuesday 14 May 2024, 5.30 pm
  • To: Tuesday 14 May 2024, 7.30 pm
  • Registration: 5.30 pm
  • Location: Lecture Theatre 4, Newton building, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
  • Booking deadline: Tuesday 14 May 2024, 3.30 pm
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Crime does not occur randomly. It concentrates at certain places and times, more commonly known as hot spots. You might say it’s not rocket science that we get violence around city centre bars and night clubs on a Friday and Saturday late night/early morning. But nowhere is risky all the time so what places and times are more attractive to offenders? Or do certain busy places generate more opportunities for offending? How do human mobility patterns, routine activities and individual lifestyles aggregate into these crime patterns? And why are we not that good at predicting crime?

Biography

Andy is a Professor of Criminology and Policing, in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). His research interests focus on the intersection of crime, people, and place. More specifically he is interested in crime and policing as related to: transport, technology, intelligent mobility and crime; acquisitive crime; policy analysis and evaluation, problem solving and evidence based policing, data science, crime analysis and GIS; situational crime prevention; offender mobility, and mixed methods research. He leads NTUs Research Theme Safety and Security of Citizens and Society (SSCS), and is co-director of the School of Social Sciences Research Centre for Offending Prevention and Engagement (COPE). He is academic advisor to the Strategic Board of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire's Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP). He is widely published in the field and his research has been commissioned by multiple organisations including the Home Office, Department for Transport, DGMOVE (EU), and the College of Policing. His work has informed several Police Forces and Community Safety Partnerships. He was recently commissioned by the Youth Endowment Fund as Principal Investigator (PI) on the evaluation of their Neighbourhood Fund Round One to empower local communities to reduce serious youth violence in their area, and received an EPSRC Researcher in Resident award with the Connected Places Catapult to pilot an approach to develop a national database for violence against women and girls (VAWG) on public transport.

Programme

5.30 pm

Registration and welcome refreshments

6 pm

Welcome talk

6.05 pm

Lecture begins

6.50 pm

Close and thanks by Executive Dean

7 pm

Drinks reception

7.30 pm

Close

Location details

Room/Building:

Lecture Theatre 4, Newton building

Address:

Goldsmith Street
 Nottingham
 NG1 4BU

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