Category: Crime and Crime Prevention

A paradoxical finding from recent studies of face perception is that observers are error-prone and inconsistent when judging the identity of unfamiliar faces, but nevertheless reasonably consistent when judging traits. Our aim is to understand this difference. Using everyday ambient images of faces, we show that visual image statistics can predict observers’ consensual impressions of…Continue Reading Understanding facial impressions between and within identities

We investigated the effect of wearing glasses and sunglasses on the perception of social traits from faces and on face matching. Participants rated images of people wearing no glasses, glasses and sunglasses on three social traits (trustworthiness, competence and attractiveness). Wearing sunglasses reduced ratings of trustworthiness. Participants also performed a matching task (telling whether two…Continue Reading Making a Spectacle of Yourself: The Effect of Glasses and Sunglasses on Face Perception

The UK’s Prevent policy continues to fail in its fundamental purpose to prevent extremism and has at times even created spaces where extremism flourishes. This article goes beyond the mechanism of implementation providing a conceptual understanding of how Prevent maintains the neoliberal status quo. The promotion of the neoliberal status quo, depoliticisation and a lack…Continue Reading A conceptual critique of Prevent: Can Prevent be saved? No, but…

          The UK’s Prevent policy continues to fail in its fundamental purpose to prevent extremism and has at times even created spaces where extremism flourishes. This article goes beyond the mechanism of implementation providing a conceptual understanding of how Prevent maintains the neoliberal status quo. The promotion of the neoliberal status…Continue Reading A conceptual critique of Prevent: Can Prevent be saved? No, but…

Dr Kay Ritchie from the College of Social Science has appeared on BBC’s Crimewatch Roadshow to discuss her work on improving CCTV images using face averages. Dr Ritchie led a study with psychologists from the University of Lincoln and York, UK, and the University of New South Wales in Australia to create a series of…Continue Reading Lincoln Psychologist Discusses Research on Crimewatch

Max Brookman-Byrne recently wrote an analysis of the reporting of UK drone strikes by the Ministry of Defence. The report is the culmination of research into the way that the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has published details of its various programmes of airstrikes across the world, focusing on Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The MOD publicly depicts these…Continue Reading Max Brookman-Byrne’s analysis of the reporting of UK drone strikes by the MOD