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Det. Supt Will Hodgkinson
Bedfordshire Police

​Domestic abuse: how to protect effectively

Will worked in neighbourhoods, emergency response, CID, public protection and Intelligence within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) before transferring to Bedfordshire as a Detective Superintendent heading up the Crime and Domestic Abuse areas of business. In the MPS, Will was the Lead Responsible Officer for Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment.

In 2008, Will graduated from the University of Essex with a degree in Criminology and Sociology with a thesis mapping out crime and anti-social behaviour demand and a review of hot spots. In 2018, Will graduated from the University of Warwick with a Master’s degree and a thesis evaluating the application of ‘Lean thinking’ to the MPS approach to dealing with death investigations. In 2018, Will commenced his second Master's degree at the University of Cambridge and conducted a randomised controlled trial (RCT) testing audible alarm technology in high risk domestic abuse addresses across London.

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This week:
Does emotional incompetence impact offending?

Whom should police resources be targeted on?

Who are the people that rape?

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From the 2021 Online Conference of the Society of Evidence Based Policing

 

Professor Jason Roach from the Applied Criminology and Policing Centre at the University of Huddersfield presented live on 31st March:

 

Unless you have been inhabiting another planet for the past ten years, then you are likely to be aware of Thaler and Sunstein’s ‘nudge’ approach to encouraging us humans into making more ‘prosocial choices’ (2008). Examples include’ nudging’ to help people give up smoking and to encourage people to donate their organs when they die (the former presumably prolonging a promise to do the latter). In terms of a means by which crime might be reduced, then the uptake of nudge continues to lag behind its application in health and social policy initiatives. It is suggested here, that this is primarily because there has been little advancement in nudge thinking in a crime reduction direction, nor has it become more bespoke to policing in the same way that it has for numerous public health issues. Several ideas for how nudge thinking might be advanced, by making it more in tune with policing are presented (e.g. NUDGE-IT), along with the suggestion that by moving current thinking beyond ‘nudge’ towards a broader ‘psychology of influence’ approach, this will be more appealing to those charged with reducing crime.

 

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This week:

What are on offenders' mental maps?

Can rape myths affect case decision-making?

Can an interviewer's attitude towards a crime impact the quality of an interview?

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Professor Lawrence Sherman, honorary chair of the Society of Evidence Based Policing and scholar at the University of Cambridge, along with Met Commander Alex Murray, chair of the SEBP, are opening this 10-week conference with a talk on 'Evidence Based Practice: How Is It The Answer to The Challenges Of Policing'

 

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Is domestic homicide predictable?

 

What is the pattern to coercively-controlling relationships?

 

What are the warning signs that you are in a coercively-controlling relationship?

 

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This week's Police Science Snippets:

How do you avoid outbreaks of violence at events with large crowds of people?

Are mentally ill people at a higher risk of becoming serial killers than mentally stable people?

When is it best to interview a witness to maximise recall?

 

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This week:

 

How do murder series of sex workers differ from murder series of sex workers and non-sex-worker victims?

 

How should you (not) police large crowds?

 

How can you catch the big fish in crime?

 

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Interview with Nick Roy, a crime analyst based in the US, and host of the NIRO Knowledge podcast, talks to me about the challenges in crime analysis.

 

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