Cybercrime and policing - a historical perspective on new challenges for the police

Jeremy Crump ( Oxford Internet Institute )

29Oct
17:00 29th October 2014 ( week 3, Michaelmas Term 2014 )
Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building

New forms of crime ask fundamental questions of existing criminal justice agencies. Cybercrime offers particular challenges to a police service which is proud of its historical traditions and mission. The session will take a long view of the culture and organisation of policing, and ask what the implications are for policing in a networked society.

Speaker bio

Jeremy Crump is Director of Strategy at the National Policing Improvement Agency, an agency of the Home Office. This role includes direction of the NPIA's research programme and its science and innovation strategy. He has also worked for Cisco Systems, HM Treasury, the Central IT Unit in the Cabinet Office and as a schoolteacher in Leicestershire. Before joining the civil service in 1986, Jeremy completed a PhD at the Centre for the Study of Social History at Warwick University. His thesis was about the commercialisation of leisure in the 19th century. Jeremy is a senior honorary visiting fellow at Leeds University Business School and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Jeremy's research at OII looks at the adoption of social media in public safety and policing as an example of the impact of a potentially disruptive technology on an established public sector organisation.