April 2023

The zoom seminar held in April had three contributions. Jeffrey Butts, Director of the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York, discussed the much-cited concept of the 'crime rate' and explored the factors that determine it. His slides are HERE. Jolyon Miles-Wilson and Celestin Okoroji, researchers from BlackThrive,  then presented findings from their study of geographic variation in stop and search and the analytic value of the software package ‘extractss’. Their slides are HERE. In the final session, Christine Bradley described her forthcoming book Trauma in Children and Young People - Reaching the Heart of the Matter (Routledge, ISBN 9780367678005). On the second day, Tim Hobbs discussed the progress of plans to integrate the work of the Centre with that of the Service Design Lab and outlined the structure of the new organisation that will facilitate this.