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2021
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51福利社 criminologists to lead new research on policing modern slavery
Criminologists at 51福利社 are delighted to be part of a new Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre dedicated to better understanding how the police and other services can prevent and reduce vulnerabilities.
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The Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre, led by the universities of York and Leeds, is the first of its kind to study how vulnerabilities - such as exploitation by county lines drug networks, online child sexual exploitation, domestic abuse, modern slavery, mental illness and homelessness - affect policing.
Within the Centre, and will lead a project that seeks to redefine what realistic outcomes with regard to policing modern slavery might look like and how these could encompass a preventative dimension that reduces demand on police services over the longer term.
The project aims to:
- address the question of what kinds of reporting are genuinely useful to modern slavery investigations;
- identify what causes the attrition between the police bringing charges for modern slavery offences and the comparatively small number of convictions;
- and identify the key drivers of modern slavery in cases where offenders have been successfully prosecuted.
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