2023
‘Climate change, crime and security: A map of issues‘. Stockholm Criminology Symposium
‘Crime in time of disruption: How to think about it and what to do.’ ECCA seminar Stockholm
2022
‘The use of IT solutions, evidence and crime science theory for the assessment of terrorism risks in complex multimodal stations’. Stockholm Transport meeting.
‘Partnership’. European Crime Prevention Conference, Brussels.
‘The Crime Role Grid’. Project IcARUS Conference, Riga, Latvia. Also ECCA conference, Harrogate, UK.
‘Climate change, crime and urban security. An evolving map of issues.’ Efus working group.
2021
‘Innovation in the knowledge-based process’ (Innovation i den kunskapsbaserade processen) Råd för Framtiden conference, Swedish Crime Prevention Council, Karlstad, Sweden.
‘Thinking about Drones, Crime and Security’, European Forum on Urban Security web conference.
‘A vehicle crime futures palette?’ UK National Vehicle Crime Working Group.
2020
‘The use of IT solutions, evidence and crime science theory for the assessment of terrorism risks in public spaces’. European week of Security (with Andrew Newton).
‘Crime in time of Disruption: How to think about it and what to do’. CEPOL Webinar AdHoc 19/2020 ‘Organised property crime in the context of the COVID-19 crisis’.
‘Resilience to (Cyber)Crime – a View from Design and Crime Science’. EPSRC cSALSA project / National CyberSecurity Centre workshop on Citizen-Centred Cyber Resilience: Building Resilient Communities from the Ground up, London.
2019
‘A Toolkit for Counterterrorism and Crime Prevention at Complex, Multimodal Stations’. Australian Institute of Criminology/Victoria State Government, Melbourne.
‘Future Crime Problems and Security Solutions – How to Anticipate them and What to Do about them’. University of Sydney/Australian Institute of Criminology, Sydney.
‘The importance of time frame in tackling new and emerging crime problems:
The Co-Eco, Devo, Evo Framework’. Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.
‘Future crime problems and solutions – How to anticipate them and what to do about them’. EU Crime Prevention Network Expert meeting ‘‘Innovation and technology within the prevention of Organised Property Crime’’, Brussels.
‘Innovation, Security and Crime’, Efus conference Augsburg – presentation/workshop participation.
‘Complexity and Change: Frameworks for defining future challenges for Countering Violent Extremism’. European Strategic Communications Network, Brussels.
‘Uncertainty: Some Principles?’ DSTL Futures Community of Practice, London.
‘Some frameworks for thinking about AI’. Dawes Centre for Future Crime Sandpit on AI.
2018
‘Future crime problems and solutions – How to anticipate them‘. Stockholm Criminology Symposium.
‘Spanning the gap between crime, terrorism and security – developing a toolkit for complex stations’, ECCA Elche, Spain (Ekblom, Newton).
‘Innovation, Security and Crime. Towards the working group of Security & Innovation Innovation in Urban security’. European Forum for Urban Security, Paris.
‘The nature of the beast(s) – understanding and engaging with the diversity of crime and disorder problems’, Taming the Wicked conference, Canterbury Christ Church University.
2017
‘Sharpening up CPTED: A toolkit to better plan cities in the future,’ seminar, KTH/Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
‘Planning local crime prevention evaluations: how to make intelligent choices’, Safer Places network, KTH Stockholm.
‘Evolutionary psychology: What is it and why is it relevant to crime, terrorism and security?’ joint with Aiden Sidebottom, International Network for Evolutionary Psychology, Crime, Terrorism and Security, Canterbury Christ Church University.
‘Crime science-based approaches to horizon-scanning for future crime problems and security solutions,’ and panel chair, Crime Futures, International Crime Science Conference, London.
2016
‘Crime, situational prevention & technology: The nature of opportunity
and how it evolves.’ Dept of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Southampton.
‘Understanding and Reducing the Risk of Terrorist Attacks at Passenger Terminals’. Workshops for Australian Institute of Criminology, Sydney/Canberra/Melbourne.
‘The only way is ethics’. Seminar to postgrad research students on research ethics, University of the Arts London.
‘Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL Project 1: the search for emerging technologies,’ UCL town meeting, London.
‘Are we holding ourselves back – or is ‘good enough’ good enough?’ – ECCA Seminar, Muenster.
‘The Conjunction of Terrorist Opportunity: A Framework to understand and prevent terrorist attacks’ – Korean National Police University.
‘Capturing and sharing knowledge of practical crime prevention: Is the 5Is framework a suitable process model for CPTED?’ Korean CPTED Association, Seoul.
‘Graffolution research outcomes: Transport environments’ – Graffolution project dissemination conference, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, Paris.
‘Prioritising theoretically plausible terrorist attacks and security defences of complex crowded places: how do we weight the elements in a conceptual framework in the absence of a rigorous evidence base?’ Ecca Muenster – Hirschfield, Ekblom, Newton.
2015
‘Capturing and sharing knowledge of the practical process of crime prevention: The 5Is framework’ – International Conference: Puebla Segura, Puebla, Mexico.
‘A toolkit for counterterrorism and crime prevention at complex, multimodal stations’, (Ekblom and Newton).
‘Sharpening up Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design’ – International CPTED Association conference, Calgary, Canada.
‘Designing products and places against crime: The promise and the challenge’ – Foro: Diseño para la Seguridad, Bogota Chamber of Commerce, Colombia.
‘We have (nicked) the technology: Exploring its relationship with crime and situational prevention’ – Stockholm Criminology Symposium.
‘Exploiting Theoretical Frameworks to the Full: Their Application to the Security of Multi-Modal Passenger Terminals (The Pre_Empt Project)’ (with Hirschfield), Stockholm Criminology Symposium, June.
2014
‘Routine Activities: Clarifying the concept and enriching the ecology’, European Society of Criminology, Prague.
‘Embedding business crime reduction approaches into mainstream policing: bringing academic thinking into practice.’ (Hirschfield and Ekblom) ECCA, Rolduc NL, 2014.
The Missing link: Putting evolutionary psychology on the crime science map (with Aiden Sidebottom and Richard Wortley), International Seminar, Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis, Rolduc NL.
The 5Is framework (poster – runner-up), UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum ‘Making Connections Matter’, NESTA.
‘Managing the arms race: tools for controlling cybercrime’, Interdisciplinary Security Seminar, Department of Computing and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University.
‘Designing deviance – imagining future crimes’, Royal Society of Arts, London.
2013
‘An alternative formulation of SCP principles – the 11Ds (and counting)’, (with Alex Hirschfield), International Seminar, Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis, Temple University, Philadelphia.
‘Reducing Terrorism and crime: a toolkit approach’, BRA Stockholm.
‘Crime Science, Crime Frameworks and Security’, Security and Human Behavior conference http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/security_and_hu_2.html.
‘Redesigning the language and concepts of crime prevention through environmental design’, 6th Ajman International Urban Planning Conference, United Arab Emirates.
‘The 5Is Framework’, W. Yorks Police training session, Leeds.
Implementation Issues (and More) in Evaluation. Project Oracle, Creating Evidence Champions, London (2013).
2012
‘Crime prevention and the conceptual frame game’, UCL Masters in Crime Science.
A good introduction to the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity and 5Is frameworks.
‘The 5Is framework: Designed to share know-how and improve performance in crime prevention’, Design and Crime conference, University of Technology Sydney.
‘5Is meets 3rd Party Policing – not to mention 9Cs’. University of Queensland, Brisbane.
‘Why crime science needs better frameworks’. Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University, Brisbane.
‘The 5Is crime prevention framework in a youth crime context.’ Australian Institute of Criminology Occasional Seminar. Video version.
‘Co-designing a toolkit for controlling hostile reconnaissance. Open innovation in a controlled environment’. (Presented by Marcus Willcocks). International Crime Science Conference, British Library.
‘Counter terrorism and crime prevention through design’, Crowded Places workshop, London.
‘Involvement of individuals and organisations in crime prevention –
a case of failure to get a grip on implementation’. International Seminar, Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis, Stavern, Norway.
‘Crime prevention in urban development – A societal challenge’ (keynote), EU-Project ‘Planning urban Security’: Vier Länder auf dem Weg zur Kriminalprävention in der Stadtentwicklung (Four countries on the path to crime prevention in urban development), Hanover, Germany.
‘What is ‘community’? How can we serve it, and deploy it, in the name of crime prevention?’ Kommunale Kriminalprävention und Bürgerbeteiligung (Community Crime Prevention and Citizen Participation), EU-funded conference, Bremen, Germany.
‘Anti-Innovation: using insights from Design Against Crime to frustrate terrorist creativity’. The Nature of Creativity: Implications for Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: A St Andrews University Workshop, Milton Hill, Oxfordshire.
‘The 5Is framework: Securing the knowledge of crime prevention and community safety’ (keynote). Annual meeting, Danish SSP (School, Social services, Police), Vejle, Denmark.
‘Designing products and places against crime: The promise and the challenge’ (keynote) and ‘Designing products and places against crime: Some tools for thinking and innovation’. Safe and sound in Finland: Local Safety Planning Seminar, Finnish Ministry of Interior, Lahti, Finland.
‘Cyber-bullying – the agony and the empathy?’ Studio presentation, Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London.
Presentations from 1976-2011 are listed below. Those without links may be available by contacting.
2011
‘Improving the language of situations: risk looms and opportunity knocks’, International Seminar on Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (ECCA), Durban, SA.
‘How to understand, specify and describe the security function of a product: Towards a language and a framework for designing against crime and terrorism’ With Sunniva Meyer. International Crime Science Conference, British Library.
‘Crime and terrorism futures’, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council workshop.
‘What future crime prevention? How can we capture the knowledge before it is lost?’ Designing Out Crime Association conference, University of the Arts London.
‘Framing crime prevention, capturing knowledge – 5Is and beyond’, Beccaria Programme final conference, Lower Saxony Crime Prevention Council, Hanover.
‘Hot products’ and ‘Design for the future’ – MSc Crime Science, Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL
‘(Un)intended consequences – How we design in opportunity for terrorist incidents – and the promise and the challenge of designing them out. Workshop on Terrorism and Creativity, London.
‘Conceptual and methodological explorations in affordance’. Workshop on the concept of Affordance and Terrorism and Political Violence, Abingdon.
2010
‘In The Bag! Tackling Personal Theft – Getting smart about bag theft, pick-pocketing and street crime’. The Security Network Seminar, Holborn, London.
‘Understanding Design Against Crime and Terrorism’ (keynote), 3rd Annual Development and Infrastructure Security Summit, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
‘Securing the knowledge: the 5Is framework for improving performance in crime prevention, security and community safety’, Occasional seminar, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.
‘Teasing apart Territoriality… and reassembling it as a useful concept for practice, research and theory’, Seminar on ‘Critical Perspectives of CPTED’, Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney. Presentation audio here.
‘Design Against Crime: the promise and the challenge’ (keynote), 2010 Design Challenge: Crime Forum, Design Research Institute, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
‘The Use of Technology in Mitigating Risk’ CNI Expo 2010, London.
‘Citizen participation in crime prevention’. General Assembly of the European Forum for Urban Safety / the Annual International Forum of the German Congress on Crime Prevention, Berlin.
‘Design Against Crime – The challenge and the promise’, Launch conference, Institute of Applied Criminology and Forensic Science, Huddersfield University.
2009
‘From Risk to Design’, Swedish National Crime Prevention Council, Stockholm.
‘Bringing Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design into the 21st Century’, Solna City Council, Sweden.
‘Teasing apart Territoriality… and reassembling it as a useful concept for practice, research and theory’, Crimprev Urban Criminology Workshop on Environmental Criminology, Keele.
2008
‘Thinking thief, thinking designer – designing out crime from places and products’, Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney.
‘How to understand, specify and describe the security function of a product: towards a language and a framework for designing against crime’, ECCA Brisbane.
‘What’s up, DOC? Contemporary practice, themes and issues in Designing Out Crime’, Occasional Seminar, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.
‘Let’s face it – crime prevention is complex.’ Keynote presentation, ANZ Society of Criminology annual conference, Canberra.
‘Crime Prevention Through Surveillance and Design…or AGD, CCTV, CPTED, ASB’, Australian Federal Attorney General’s Department, Canberra.
‘Design Against Crime’ – masterclass in conference, The Malicious Exploitation of Information Systems: Preventing the Rise of the Insider Threat, UCL.
‘What Theory Knows Is… Using theory to analyse crime risks and generate design guidance for secure bike parking.’ Putting the Brakes on Bike Thieves: Design Fit for 21st Century Living. London Bike Film Festival, Barbican.
‘Community Safety Impact Assessment’. EqIA Round Table Event, London.
‘Crime prevention: International experience’. Keynote address at Western Australia Government conference ‘State community safety and crime prevention strategy renewal forum’, Perth. Also, presentations to Office of Crime Prevention on ‘Current issues in prevention’, and to Strategy Think Tank on ‘5Is framework’.
‘Bringing CPTED into the 21st century’, ‘Measuring Police Effectiveness’, ‘Making the complex communicable’, all at Stockholm Criminology Symposium.
‘Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design’. Safer Sustainable Cities, Swansea Metropolitan University.
‘An inconvenient complexity – or why crime prevention needs intelligent design to guide research and evaluation and structure the knowledge they produce’. Workshop conference on evaluation, Police Academy, Stavern, Norway.
‘Capturing, assessing, transferring and applying knowledge of good practice in crime prevention: the 5Is framework’, Irish Youth Justice Service first biennial conference ‘Best Practice for Youth Justice, Best Practice for all’, Ballyconnell, Irish Republic.
‘Crime prevention and the conceptual frame game’, and ‘Design Against Crime’ theory modules, MSc in Crime Science, Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL, London.
‘Less Crime, by Design’, Interdisciplinary Design Institute, Washington State University, Spokane WA.
‘Designing Out Crime: Creating Safer Communities Through Planning and Technological Innovation’ – Westminster Briefing conference (the House Magazine), Westminster.
2007
‘Safer places, successful spaces’. Designing Safer Environments Conference, Westminster.
‘Surveillance – getting a clear view’. Designing Out Crime Association AGM, Birmingham.
‘Fresh and evolving ideas from the collision of Situational Crime Prevention and Design’. Departmental seminar, Sociology, University of Surrey.
‘Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design’, at ‘Crime Prevention: Czech Republic and International Perspectives’, Ministry of Interior, Prague.
‘Crime Reduction Through Surveillance and Design’, International Crime Reduction Conference in Banff, Canada, organised by the Province of Alberta.
‘Striking Sparks: Fresh and evolving ideas from the collision of Situational Crime Prevention and Design’ and ‘Managing the risks of evaluating crime prevention interventions using the 5Is framework’. International Crime Science Conference, British Library, London; and International Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis seminar, UCL, London. (with Aiden Sidebottom).
‘The work of DAC as funded by AHRC’, to AHRC Chief Executive and Treasury officials as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
‘Professional Training in Crime Prevention: The UK situation’ Beccaria Partner Meeting, Hanover, Germany.
‘Mapping Risk’, Corporate Security Network workshop on risk, Canary Wharf London.
‘The Importance of Good Design – the case of Design Against Crime’, Cityscape conference Designing for Quality Spaces – Improving the Public Realm through Design Exhibition on Innovations in the Built Environment, Earl’s Court, London.
‘Design Against Crime’, University of the Arts London Research Network.
‘Crime prevention and the conceptual frame game’, theory module, MSc in Crime Science, Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL.
‘Designing Products Against Crime – bicycles’, BA Product Design course, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.
‘Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design – Time for an Upgrade?’ National Architect Liaison Officers’ Conference, Stratford upon Avon.
2006
‘Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design – Time for an Upgrade?’ Designing Out Crime Association AGM/workshop, Worcester.
‘Identification and application of Best Practice in Crime Prevention – some fundamental questions and some attempted answers.’ European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN) Best Practices Conference, Hämeenlinna, Finland.
‘Planning Urban Spaces and Security’ and ‘Designing out Crime’. Security, Democracy and Cities, European Forum of urban Safety, Zaragoza, Spain.
‘Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design – Time for an upgrade?’ and ‘Designing Products Against Crime – A Think Thief perspective.’ 17th Annual Conference on Problem-Oriented Policing, Madison, Wisconsin.
‘Appropriate Complexity: Capturing and structuring knowledge from impact and process evaluations of Crime Prevention, Community Safety and Problem-Oriented Policing.’ International Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis Conference, Vancouver.
‘Re-building Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design.’ International Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis Conference, Vancouver.
‘Benchmarking Crime Prevention and Community Safety in EU.’ EC Forum on General Crime Prevention – Elements of an evolving European Crime Prevention Policy.
‘Diagnosing Bicycle Crime with the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity Framework.’ Conference/Exhibition ‘Reinventing the Bikeshed’. London.
‘Appropriate Complexity: capturing and structuring knowledge from impact & process evaluations of Crime Prevention, Community Safety and Problem-Oriented Policing.’ Stockholm Criminology Symposium.
‘Design and Crime Prevention: Understanding the Links and Processes.’ National Convention for Community Safety, Portsmouth.
‘Crime Prevention Methodologies: frameworks for Planning, Implementation and Evaluation.’ CEPOL (European Police College) course on crime prevention, Lisbon.
‘Street Crime and Design: micro scale.’ International Crime Science Network UCL Jill Dando Institute, London.
‘Technology and Crime Prevention’. University of Huddersfield Crime Prevention Seminar.
‘Recent developments in Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design’, to a) Masters’ course in Urban Security, b) Masters’ in Crime Prevention, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy.
Chair and presenter, Westminster Briefing on ‘Building Safer Communities Through Partnership: Designing Out Crime’, London.
‘Limiting Theft of Electronic Products: Ways of Measuring – and Addressing – Security’, iWant: to Design More Secure Products Event (Project MARC), Jill Dando Institute, UCL London.
‘Design Against Crime’ presentation to Japanese Urban Planners, Innovation Centre, Central Saint Martins College.
‘Crime prevention and the conceptual frame game’, theory module, MSc in Crime Science, Jill Dando Institute, UCL.
2005
‘Design Against Crime’, lecture to Salford University cross-faculty Investigating workshop on ‘Holistic Research Synergies for Tackling Crime’.
‘Crime prevention, 5Is and the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity’, theory module, MSc in Crime Science, Jill Dando Institute, UCL.
‘Design Against Crime’, lecture to London College of Fashion degree course.
‘Capturing and evaluating the process of community safety’, at conference ‘Community Safety: Innovation and Evaluation’, University of Chester.
‘Keeping on Our Toes: Avoiding the Cookbook, Matching to Context, Adapting to Change’, at conference ‘Designing out Drug Related Crime in Shopping Environments, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London.
‘Horizon Scanning: Managing the Future in Policing’, Police Future Scanning Group, London.
‘Product design against crime’, Designing Out Crime Association, Birmingham.
‘The 5Is framework – sharing good practice in crime reduction’, International seminar on Quality Management in Crime Prevention (Beccaria Project), Hanover, Germany.
‘Designing Crime out of ICT Systems – Mirage or Possibility?’ LSE Security Colloquium, London.
‘Crime prevention, 5Is and the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity’, theory module, MSc in Crime Science, Jill Dando Institute, UCL.
‘Conjunction of Terrorist Opportunity and surveillance’, SERVE conference Bristol.
2004
‘Designing ICT for Crime Prevention’, British Computer Society Thought Leadership Debate.
‘The 5Is framework – sharing good practice in crime reduction’, presentations to several local Youth Offending Teams and to Youth Justice Board Academic Research Seminar.
‘Crime prevention knowledge’, and ‘Design Against Crime’, keynote presentations to Japan Urban Security Research Institute, Tokyo.
‘Evaluating crime prevention projects’, workshop, Hampshire Police Crime Prevention teams.
‘Crime prevention, 5Is and the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity’, theory module, MSc in Crime Science, Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL.
‘The 5Is framework – sharing good practice in crime reduction’, workshop on Problem-solving in crime reduction, Crime Reduction Centre, Leeds.
‘The 5Is framework – sharing good practice in crime reduction’, seminar, Leicester University.
‘Planning out crime’, Design against crime seminar, Kent Constabulary, Maidstone.
‘The 5Is framework – sharing good practice in crime reduction’, presentation to Swedish National Crime Prevention Council, Stockholm; and presentation to practitioners in national conference Råd för framtiden.
‘Partnership in the prevention of violence’, Council of Europe conference, Brussels.
2003
‘London’s crime future: how to think about it now’, London futures – vision, reality and catalyst for change, London Development Agency Seminar Series.
‘Delivering joined-up policy solutions at local level: Developing the Good Practice Guidance for planning out crime. Part 2: Evidence, knowledge and value – problems and possible solutions’, conference on Designing-out crime – strategic and tactical measures to reduce crime in the urban environment, London.
Commentator, Royal Statistical Society seminar on assessing effectiveness of social, behavioural and educational interventions.
‘A comprehensive methodological approach for crime prevention: the 5I’s model’, European conference on prevention based on the knowledge of drugs trafficking by organised criminality, Ministry of Interior, Madrid.
‘Designing goods & services’, short course, Jill Dando Institute, UCL.
Commentator on report ‘Evaluating police performance in Europe. The Belgian, Dutch, French and Spanish experiences’. EU symposium at Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité Intérieure, Paris.
‘How to police the future’, workshop on how to police the future: scanning for scientific and technological innovations generating threats and opportunities in crime, policing and crime reduction, Home Office, Warwick University.
‘The 5Is framework’, Standard conceptual framework for the description and exchange of good practices, French Government/EU Crime Prevention Network, Paris.
‘The 5Is framework’, National Intelligence Analysts’ Conference, Dunblane, Scotland.
‘The 5Is framework – sharing good practice in crime reduction’, Master’s/Diploma in Applied Criminology and Police Management, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University.
2002
‘Design against crime and crime futures’, Crime science module, Master’s in Social Policy, Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL.
‘Designing goods & services’, short course, Jill Dando Institute, UCL.
‘Crime prevention and the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity’, Master’s in Criminology, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University.
‘Crime prevention and the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity’, Accelerated Promotion Course for Inspectors, Centrex (twice).
‘Crime reduction, community safety and sustainability’, introductory address at Building Research Establishment conference on Sustainability and crime, London.
‘Future imperfect’, European Forum on the Prevention of Organised Crime: workshop on a European strategy on crime and terrorism proofing and the assessment of the threat from organised crime, Brussels.
‘The Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity: a conceptual framework for the reduction of crime’, Thames Valley Police, Operation Robbery workshop, Didcot.
‘Towards a European knowledge base – the 5Is’, and chair, burglary good practice workshop, EU Crime Prevention Network Conference, Aalborg, Denmark.
2001
‘The Crime Reduction Programme’s Design against Crime Initiative’, convener and co-presenter, 10th International Seminar on Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis, University of Liverpool.
‘Designing, planning and managing out crime’, Towards a knowledge-based strategy to prevent crime, EU experts’ conference, Sundsvall, Sweden.
‘Feasibility study on good practice in prevention of organised crime’(with Profs Mike Levi and Mike Maguire, and Lars Korsell), Workshop on Development of tools to support prevention of organised crime in practice, Europol, The Hague.
‘Crime prevention – a task for police and wider society’, Council of Europe Seminar, Moscow Law Academy.
‘Public-private partnerships in crime prevention’, Risk and Security Management Forum, Southampton.
‘Crime prevention and the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity’, Council of Europe/NACRO conference on Partnership in delivering community safety, Warwick University.
‘Crime prevention and the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity’, Centrex course on community safety, Police Staff College, Bramshill.
‘Crime analysis’, Short course in crime analysis, Jill Dando Institute, UCL.
‘A logic model for crime prevention in the EUCPN’, chair/presenter, workshop on research, EU Crime Prevention Network conference, Leuven.
Autour du partenariat: pourquoi, avec qui, comment?’, Police Training Conference, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
2000
‘Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity – a framework for crime analysts?’, Masters course on criminal intelligence analysis, Manchester University.
‘Less crime, by design’, Royal Society of Arts lecture series, London.
‘Crime capacities and the incapacitation of crime’ (with Nick Tilley; also session chair), British Criminology Conference, Leicester.
‘Designing out crime’, ‘Design against crime’ lecture series, Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London.
‘Community involvement in crime prevention: local and national crime prevention programmes’; ‘Evaluation issues’ – papers presented at Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Vienna.
‘Design against crime’, Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group, London.
‘Design against crime – Crime Reduction Programme’, Design In Education Week, Design Council, London.
‘Organised crime prevention – conceptual framework’ (with Mike Sutton), Europol – workshop on best practices in prevention’, The Hague.
1999
‘Identification, evaluation, collection and dissemination of good practice in reducing organised crime. Adapting the situational approach’ (with Dick Oldfield), Europol forum on crime prevention, The Hague.
‘The Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity’, Council of Europe seminar for Hungarian National Police Academy, Budapest.
‘The Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity’, seminar for MPhil Criminology course, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University.
‘Crime and crime prevention – the future’, Plenary meeting, Fire/Theft Committee, Comité Européen des Assurances/ Loss Prevention Council, Seville.
‘Less crime through design’, Royal Society of Arts Student Design award tutor briefing session, London (repeated following year).
‘Situational crime prevention’, 6th international symposium ‘Healthcare security into the 21st Century’, London.
1998
‘The scope of partnership work – conceptual framework’, Scarman Centre Crime & Disorder Act Conference on ‘Community Safety’, Leicester University.
Convener and presenter, 2 panel sessions at American Society of Criminology, Washington: ‘Evolutionary crime prevention’ – paper on ‘Crime prevention as an arms race’; Conceptual issues in government response to crime’, – paper on ‘Defining crime prevention and community safety: tools for thought’.
‘Prêt à combattre le crime’, presentation at seminar for International Center for the Prevention of Crime, London.
‘Evaluating CCTV’, Housing Centre Trust, London.
‘Crime prevention and Foresight’ (with Ken Pease and Michelle Rogerson), Department of Trade and Industry/ Office of Science and Technology workshop on crime panel, London.
‘Tools for thought’, presentation in postgraduate criminal justice seminar series, Scarman Centre, Leicester University.
1997
‘Gearing up against crime’, Senior crime prevention officers’ course, Home Office Crime Prevention College, Easingwold.
‘Gearing up against crime (2): Can we make crime prevention adaptive by learning from other evolutionary struggles?’, 6th international seminar on environmental criminology and crime prevention, Oslo.
‘Evaluating the Impact of the Safer Cities Programme in England’, Government Social Research Conference ‘Evaluation research in government’, Dunblane, Scotland.
Impact evaluation for practitioners: making it easier and better. ICPC conference, Vancouver, Canada.
‘Safer Cities’, Nordic Associations of Criminologists Conference, Hirtshals, Denmark.
‘Domestic burglary schemes in the Safer Cities Programme’, at ‘Safer Staffordshire’ seminar, Leek.
‘Safer Cities’, workshop presentation at ARVAC/Community Development Foundation Conference ‘Do longitudinal research techniques have a role in evaluating community development?’, Birmingham.
1996
Joint convener (with P-O Wikström) of session on ‘Integrating crime prevention’, and presenter on paper on ‘Proximal circumstances’ (predecessor to Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity framework), British Criminology Conference, Loughborough.
‘Making evaluation easier and better’ and ‘Safer Cities impact evaluation’, at International Centre for the Prevention of Crime conference ‘Towards world change’, Vancouver.
Convener, ‘interlabo’ seminar on ‘The market for stolen goods’, on behalf of Groupe Européene pour la Recherche sur les Normativités, London.
1995
‘Safer cities impact evaluation’, presenter and session chair, American Society of Criminology, Boston.
‘Less crime, by design’. National conference on designing out crime, London.
‘Safer Cities impact evaluation – first results’. 4th International Seminar on Environmental Criminology and Crime Prevention, Cambridge University.
‘Safer Cities Phase I – impact and process results’. Safer Cities Phase II coordinators’ conference, Sheffield.
‘The Safer Cities impact evaluation’. Seminar for MSc Criminology course, LSE.
1994
‘Proximal circumstances: towards a discipline of crime prevention?’, Swedish National Crime Prevention Council, Stockholm.
‘Towards a discipline of crime prevention: a systematic approach to its nature, range and concepts’. 22nd Cropwood Conference ‘Preventing Crime and Disorder’, Cambridge University.
‘Proximal circumstances: towards a discipline of crime prevention?’, 3rd International Seminar on Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis, Rutgers University, Newark USA.
‘Scoping, scoring and modelling: linking measures of crime preventive action to measures of outcome in the evaluation of England’s Safer Cities Programme’, International Society for Criminology/ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 49th International Course on Changes in society, crime and criminal justice in Europe, Leuven, Belgium.
‘Scoping, scoring and modelling: linking measures of crime preventive action to measures of outcome in a large, multi-site evaluation using a Geographic Information System and Multi-level modelling’, Geographic Information Systems Research UK (GISRUK) conference, Leicester.
‘Safer Cities evaluation – role of the Geographic Information System’, Research and Statistics Department Programme planning conference, Eastbourne.
1993
‘Scoping, scoring and modelling: linking measures of crime preventive action to measures of outcome in a large, multi-site evaluation’, Royal Statistical Society seminar, City University.
‘Scoping and scoring: linking measures of action to measures of outcome in a multi-scheme, multi-site crime prevention programme’, 2nd International Seminar on Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis, University of Miami.
Discussant, seminar by Trickett et al. on multilevel modeling of crime survey data, Royal Statistical Society seminar, City University.
1992
‘The Safer Cities Programme impact evaluation’, seminar for MSc in social research methods (repeated a further 3 times), City University.
‘The Safer Cities Programme impact evaluation’, Lancs/Cumbria branch of Royal Statistical Society, Lancaster University.
‘The Safer Cities Programme impact evaluation’, at HO Programme Development Unit evaluation conference, Chester.
‘The Safer Cities Programme impact evaluation’, Safer Cities Coordinators’ Workshop, Birmingham University.
‘L’évaluation des politiques de prévention criminelle: problèmes, questions et contexte’, Montpellier University, France, Journée d’études sur l’évaluation des politiques de prévention.
‘Urban crime prevention: development of policy and practice in England’, International Society for Criminology/Japan Urban Security Research Institute, 47th International Course on Crime Prevention in the Urban Community, Tokyo.
‘The Safer Cities evaluation’, new Safer Cities coordinators’ induction course Henry Fielding Centre, Manchester University.
1991
‘Managing external research’, Civil Service College Sunningdale, course of same title.
‘The Safer Cities Programme evaluation’, School for Advanced Urban Studies, course on ‘Inner Cities: monitoring and evaluation’, Bristol University.
‘High crime areas, surveys and evaluation’, British Criminology Conference, York.
1990
‘The Safer Cities Programme evaluation’, Social Research Association conference ‘Evaluation research into the 1990s’, London.
‘Talking to offenders: practical lessons for local crime prevention’, International seminar on ‘local safety and prevention policies: Tools for decision-making’, Barcelona.
‘Evaluating crime prevention activity’, and ‘Crime and crime prevention research in the Home Office’, Swedish National Crime Prevention Council, Stockholm.
‘Crime prevention research and evaluation’, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, LSE (repeated a further 3 times).
1989
‘Evaluation: the management of uncertainty’, British Criminology Conference, Bristol Polytechnic.
‘Geographical information systems: user requirements for crime pattern analysis’, MAPIT conference/exhibition, ESRC Regional Research Laboratory, Manchester University.
1988
‘Crime prevention: a framework for action’, seminar with Department of Criminology, Middlesex Polytechnic.
‘Combatting vandalism in public services: the case of graffiti on Underground trains’, conference organised by TV South/ BT at Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London.
‘Loss prevention through crime analysis’, talk for course on management of retail security, Loughborough University Centre for Extension Studies (repeated six times on ‘risk assessment’ course).
‘The preventive process’, talk during course on security at government establishments, Civil Service College London.
1987
‘Crime prevention in England: themes and issues’, keynote speech at conference on Preventing Property Crime, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.
‘The prevention of robberies at sub-post offices’, British Criminology Conference, Sheffield.
1986
‘Preventing shoplifting – an approach through crime analysis’, Merseyside police conference on retail security, Liverpool.
‘Crime prevention in England’, Florida State’s 12th Annual Help Stop Crime! Conference, Orlando, Florida.
‘Preventing shoplifting – an approach through crime analysis’, Snow Hill Crime Prevention Association, City of London.
‘The preventive process – practical steps and wider issues’, Southeast Regional Crime Prevention Panels Conference, Maidstone.
‘Security on housing estates’, seminar on housing security, Chelmsford Institute of Higher Education.
‘Crime prevention exercise’, senior officers’ “carousel” course, Police Staff College, Bramshill.
‘Preventing shoplifting’, presentation of research to police crime prevention officers, Home Office Crime Prevention Centre, Stafford.
1985
‘A crime-free car’, presentation of research to conference of police crime prevention officers, Home Office.
‘Work of the Crime Prevention Unit’, seminar on crime prevention – a coordinated approach, Guildford.
‘Community policing – obstacles and issues’, seminar on community in social policy, Policy Studies Institute, London.
‘Situational crime prevention – theory and practice’, law students seminar, Polytechnic of Central London.
1984
‘Community policing – obstacles and issues’, Brighton Polytechnic social studies students (repeated following year).
‘Graded responding – the role of the radio controller’, Home Office national seminar on graded responding, Preston.
‘Research on vandalism’, seminar on vandalism, Borough of Scunthorpe.
1983
‘Workshop on graded responding’, Senior Command Course, Police Staff College, Bramshill.
‘Research on vandalism’, symposium on vandalism, Wakefield City.
1982
‘Community policing – charting the rocks’, American Society of Criminology, Washington DC.
1981
‘Research on vandalism’, conference on vandalism, Teeside Polytechnic, Middlesborough.
1980
‘The management of vandalism’, British Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference, Salford.
‘Police and crime research’, MSc student seminar, University of Aston in Birmingham.
‘Community policing’, MSc seminar, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University (yearly to 1985).
1977
‘Science as perception’, British Psychological Society annual conference.
1976
‘Cognitive dissonance theory – past, present and future’, British Psychological Society annual conference, York.