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Policing 2008 2(2):149-153; doi:10.1093/police/pan028
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© The Authors 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of CSF Associates: Publius, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Editorial

Special Edition on Crime Science

Gloria Laycock, Guest Editor*

* Gloria Laycock OBE, Director of the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science. E-mail: g.laycock@ucl.ac.uk

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

We are grateful to the General Editors of the Journal for offering us the opportunity to draw together a Crime Science issue of Policing. It means that we can outline what crime science is to one of our most significant audiences, and why we felt it to be necessary. We can also mention the associated research agenda, which opens up new areas of investigation that we feel are important to the reduction of crime. Reflecting these issues, this short introductory note first describes crime science, and why we felt it was necessary and then mentions some of the potential areas for research, drawing on the articles in this issue.

What is Crime Science?

Crime science is the application of science to the control of crime.1 The caveat is that it needs to be done ethically and with taste—we don't want to create fortresses or disregard human rights. These issues need to be at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Crime Science research agenda


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