Female criminality in cross-national perspective: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick
Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2013, June)
Female criminality in cross-national perspective: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick. Paper presented at Joint Conference of the British, North American and Australasian Associations for Victorian Studies: The Global and The Local, Venice, Italy
No abstract available.
Assessing the impact of a high-intensity partnership between the police and drug treatment service in addressing the offending of problematic drug users.
Journal Article
Best, D., Walker, D., Aston, E., Pegram, C., & O'Donnell, G. (2010)
Assessing the impact of a high-intensity partnership between the police and drug treatment service in addressing the offending of problematic drug users. Policing and Society, 20(3), 358-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2010.493609
While there is a considerable evidence base showing links between drug use and offending and clear evidence of the impact of treatment engagement on drug-related offending, th...
Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites
Conference Proceeding
Frowd, C. D., Hancock, P. J., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A. H., Pitchford, M., Atkins, R., …Sendrea, G. (2010)
Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites. In 2010 International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (EST),doi:10.1109/est.2010.38
Facial composites are traditionally made by witnesses and victims describing and selecting parts of criminals’ faces, but this method is hard to do and has been shown to be ge...
Constructing citizenship through suffragette prison diaries
Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2010, June)
Constructing citizenship through suffragette prison diaries. Paper presented at 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference, University of Sussex
No abstract available.
Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching
Conference Proceeding
Hancock, P. J., McIntyre, A. H., & Kittler, J. (2009)
Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching. In Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security, 2009. BLISS '09https://doi.org/10.1109/bliss.2009.17
Identity verification by matching face images is a common security task; is this person on a wanted list? With unfamiliar faces, this is surprisingly difficult, with error rat...
Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample
Journal Article
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2009)
Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(4), 235-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.03.005
Anecdote and samples from extreme populations suggest military interests and ‘esoteric’ or Gothic interests (collectively referred to as sensational interests) are a predictor...
Evolving the memory of a criminal’s face: methods to search a face space more effectively
Journal Article
Frowd, C., Bruce, V., Pitchford, M., Gannon, C., Robinson, M., Tredoux, C., …Hancock, P. J. B. (2009)
Evolving the memory of a criminal’s face: methods to search a face space more effectively. Soft Computing. 14(1), 81-90. doi:10.1007/s00500-008-0391-z. ISSN 1432-7643
Witnesses and victims of serious crime are often required to construct a facial composite, a visual likeness of a suspect’s face. The traditional method is for them to select ...
Sensational and extreme interests in adolescents.
Book Chapter
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2007)
Sensational and extreme interests in adolescents. In R. N. Kocsis (Ed.), Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crime, 63-84. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-049-6_5
Evolving the face of a criminal: How to search a face space more effectively.
Conference Proceeding
Frowd, C. D., Bruce, V., Gannon, C., Robinson, M., Tredoux, C., Park, J., …Hancock, P. J. (2007)
Evolving the face of a criminal: How to search a face space more effectively. In ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security, 2007. BLISS 2007doi:10.1109/bliss.2007.28
Witnesses and victims of serious crime are often required to construct a facial composite, a visual likeness of a suspect's face. The traditional method is for them to select ...
Adding Holistic Dimensions to a Facial Composite System
Conference Proceeding
Frowd, C., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A., & Hancock, P. (2006)
Adding Holistic Dimensions to a Facial Composite System. In 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2006. FGR 2006doi:10.1109/fgr.2006.20
Facial composites are typically constructed by witnesses to crime by describing a suspect?s face and then selecting facial features from a kit of parts. Unfortunately, when pr...