Published: 2017-03-09
EMBRACE - a digital service for documenting and preventing crime is nominated for "Best Digital Innovation 'at Örebro Gala 9 March. The service is a practical application of research in criminology at the University of Örebro.
- It's great that EMBRACE attention. We want to change fundamentally how to conduct crime prevention and security-building work in practice. It needs to be much more systematic and knowledge in their work and EMBRACE provides conditions for it, says Henrik Andershed, professor of criminology and responsible for the development of EMBRACE.The format of EMBRACE is the process that both Council for Crime Prevention, Good, and international research, advocating for local knowledge-based and security-building work. It involves the identification, analysis, response, monitoring and feedback. The user receives support in all of these steps.- A success factor is the simplicity and user-friendly at all stages. For if it fails, even if only a single operation, the service will not be used sufficiently for maximum community impact, says Henrik Andershed.EMBRACE provides concrete support in the survey, for example, to identify trouble spots or so-called hot spots (locations are specific crime victims) and the times of year, weeks and days that are especially affected. It allows you to be much more proactive and effective in their actions.The digital service can collect and define many
types of data and retrieve it from different sources, such as the police report system or from a housing company caretakers. EMBRACE of the fully expanded version will also provide forecasts of the various types of crime have different high probability to occur in the near future.It is the second year in a row that Örebro University is nominated in this competition class at Örebro Gala. Last year Ulrica Nilsson with its mobile app RAPP.
