Security & Crime
i4S is led by a strong alpha team, which over the past 25 years has built up fundamental and functional knowledge in both crime and insecurity phenomena. In addition, broad insight has been acquired into both the technological and digital needs of the private and public security stakeholders (including private security companies, police, justice, intelligence and inspection services) and the legal and privacy-related preconditions for the implementation of technological and digital solutions in the security market.
i4S offers a wide range of multi-disciplinary expertise related to crime and security. Our researchers have very strong knowledge and scientific expertise in research methodology provide knowledge on topics such as:
- Belgian criminal law and criminal justice
- European and International Criminal Law and criminal justice
- Drugs
- Organised crime
- Terrorism
- Corruption
- Sexual offending, prostitution and human trafficking
- Youth crime, juvenile justice and children's rights
- Private security and intelligence
- Policing
- Spatio-temporal clustering of safety
- Privacy
- Technology & cyber
- Big data and surveillance
- Vulnerable groups
- Diverse and state of the art quantitative and qualitative research methods