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Matt Ashby

Matt Ashby

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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

 
Blog posts

Chart: Largest real police pay rise in 20 years, but effects of previous cuts linger
29 Jul 2024

A bar chart showing government spending on policing each year from 2010 to 2024, in 2023 prices. After taking into account inflation, police funding per person in England and Wales in 2024 is around 9% lower than in 2010. Funding dropped sharply while David Cameron was prime minister, stayed lower under Theresa May, and has increased since (although not to the level seen in 2010). If police funding had been maintained at 2010 levels, spending today would be about £1.0bn higher than it is.

What happened to policing between 2010 and 2024?
08 Jul 2024
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Recent publications and reports

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
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Recent talks

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
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Get in touch

matthew.ashby@ucl.ac.uk
+44 (0) 20 3108 3890
35 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9EZ
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