Matt Ashby

I am an associate professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science at University College London (UCL). I do research on how police can use data to reduce crime. I also run the CrimPapers journal-alerts service, and maintain the R packages crimedata and sfhotspot.

Recent blog posts

Title	Date
Publications
Concentrations of harm: Geographic and demographic patterning in human trafficking and related victimisation	Apr 2024
Knife crime – a problem solving guide	Oct 2023
Incorporating time into studying crime and place	Mar 2023
Official Police Data	Mar 2023

Title	Date
Talks
Forecasting crime for strategic crime analysis	May 2025
Sports events and violence in large cities in the United States	Sep 2024
Open access to criminological knowledge: an update	Sep 2024
How do trafficking-related harms concentrate spatially and demographically? Findings from large-scale analysis of UK victimisation data	Jul 2024

matthew.ashby@ucl.ac.uk
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