Growth of The Crime Science Field
The concept of crime science appears to be taking root more broadly with:
- A Springer Open Access Interdisciplinary journal devoted to Crime Science .
- A Crime Science course at Northumbria University in the UK.
- A Crime Science course at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
- A Crime Science Unit at DSTL, the research division of the UK Ministry of Defence.
- The term crime science increasingly being adopted by situational and experimental criminologists in the US and Australia.
- The annual Crime Science Network gathering in London draws police and academics from across the world.
- Crime science increasingly being cited in criminology text books and journals papers (sometimes claimed as a new branch of criminology, and sometimes reviled as anti-criminology).
- Crime science featuring in several learned journals in other disciplines (such as a special issue of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics devoted to "crime modelling") .
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