Martin Gill

Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International

Martin Gill is the Director of Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International. Martin is also a Professor of Criminology and for over two decades has been actively involved in a range of studies relating to different aspects of crime and its prevention. In the past he has studied victims, the police service and probation service and looked at different ways on which the community manages crime (or tries to).

He has a particular interest in business crime and the security sector. The types of projects he has been involved in (with Perpetuity colleagues) includes the causes of false burglar alarms, why fraudsters steal, the effectiveness of CCTV, the effectiveness of security guards, how companies protect their brand image, the generators of illicit markets and stolen goods, to name but a few. He has also launched and led the Security Research Initiative which was short listed for a Security Excellence award.

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