Hi-Tech Crime CRIM30375

How paedophiles speak to children online Cristina Izura , Swansea University and Nuria Lorenzo-Dus , Swansea University The internet has transformed our lives. As of July 2016, around 40% of the world’s population was online – that’s nearly 3.5 billion internet users . Since it was created, the web has gone from being a simple tool used to share and distribute information to a complex virtual place which pervades nearly every aspect of society. Though the creators’ intentions for the internet were surely good, today it is also used for heinous crimes such as the sexual exploitation of children. This type of abuse can take almost as many forms as in the physical world: ranging from producing, storing and trading child pornography to seeking paid or unpaid sex online or offline once onscreen contact has been established. Online grooming – that is, the process of persuading a youngster to have sex, online and/or offline, with an adult – is at an alarming high. Research has found ...

How the UK passed the most invasive surveillance law in democratic history Paul Bernal , University of East Anglia You might not have noticed thanks to world events , but the UK parliament recently approved the government’s so-called Snooper’s Charter and it will soon become law. This nickname for the Investigatory Powers Bill is well earned. It represents a new level and nature of surveillance that goes beyond anything previously set out in law in a democratic society. It is not a modernisation of existing law, but something qualitatively different, something that intrudes upon every UK citizen’s life in a way that would even a decade ago have been inconceivable. The bill requires internet and telecoms companies to keep records of every website or app we use and all our phone calls and messages for 12 months. It leaves us in the unenviable position of leading the world in the legalisation of surveillance. And it will likely be used by more authoritarian regimes around the glob...

Drone currently deployed in Plymouth with thermal imaging, assisting officers with search for a male wanted for multiple serious offences. pic.twitter.com/iGYUQM4cMR — D&C Police Drones (@DC_PoliceDrones) November 15, 2016

Laser attacks are a serious risk to aviation. When attacked, NPAS will identify offenders, prosecuting where possible... as in this case! pic.twitter.com/aMxclpAV7p — NPAS Redhill (@NPASRedhill) November 15, 2016

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The fortress complex: how the West became obsessed with home security Sarah Blandy , University of Sheffield and Rowland Atkinson , University of Sheffield That famous phrase, “an Englishman’s home is his castle”, neatly captures longstanding ideas about what the private home really is: a place which we can control and defend, a private territory where we decide who enters and who doesn’t. We all share a deep and primitive fear of intrusion and invasion, which lead us to see the home as a place of refuge. So it seems strange that while crime has broadly declined over the past two decades across the Western world, we have also seen the appearance of many more gated communities and homes with extensive security systems. In our new book, Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front we explore some of the explanations for this surprising trend. For one thing, withdrawal from public life has become something of an escapist fantasy, promoted by high-profile celebrities who use t...