Publications

Author

Matt Ashby

I have been a (co-)author on the following publications. Click the title of a publication for more details, including links to free-to-read versions.

Concentrations of harm: Geographic and demographic patterning in human trafficking and related victimisation

Knife crime – a problem solving guide

Incorporating time into studying crime and place

Official Police Data

Benchmarking police numbers in London against other global cities

Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime

Benchmarking crime in London against other global cities

Stop and Search in London: April 2021 to March 2022

Stop and Search in London: January to December 2021

Police perceptions of problem-oriented policing and evidence-based policing: evidence from England and Wales

Forty years of problem-oriented policing: A review of progress in England and Wales

Stop and Search in London: October 2020 to September 2021

Problem-oriented policing in England and Wales: barriers and facilitators

Understanding changing demand for police during Covid-19

Stop and Search in London: June 2020 to July 2021

Stop and Search in London: July to September 2020

The open-access availability of criminological research to practitioners and policy makers

Changes in Police Calls for Service During the Early Months of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic

Initial evidence on the relationship between the coronavirus pandemic and crime in the United States

Successful police problem-solving: a practice guide

Problem-Oriented Policing in England and Wales in 2019

Implementing and sustaining problem-oriented policing: a guide

Studying crime and place with the Crime Open Database

Is there more violence around schools? Four tests across nine cities

Does a good cop really never get wet? The impact of weather on stop and frisk

Alternative denominators in transport crime rates

Comparing methods for measuring crime harm/severity

The value of CCTV surveillance cameras as an investigative tool: an empirical analysis

Self-guardianship at automated teller machines

Children, gender, and sexual exploitation: a quantitative analysis of administrative data

Using crime science for understanding and preventing theft of metal from the British railway network

Immaterial boys? A large-scale exploration of gender-based differences in child sexual exploitation service users

Routine activities and proactive police activity: a macro-scale analysis of police searches in London and New York City

Concentrations of railway metal theft and the locations of scrap-metal dealers

Is metal theft committed by organized crime groups, and why does it matter?

The when and where of an emerging crime type: the example of metal theft from the railway network of Great Britain

UK open source crime data: accuracy and possibilities for research

Research on the Sexual Exploitation of Boys and Young Men: a UK scoping study, a summary of the findings

Not just a girl thing: a large-scale comparison of male and female users of child sexual exploitation services in the UK

Copper cable theft: revisiting the price–theft hypothesis

A comparison of methods for temporal analysis of aoristic crime