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  • Blog
  • 7th Feb 2020

BIT Crime Week Blog #5 Phishing and behavioural science

On 4 May 2000, millions of computers were infected with a virus that erased enough files to cause around £12bn worth of damage worldwide. An email virus that appeared to be a love letter from a friend. The message read: Subject line: ILOVEYOU Body of email: Kindly check the attached…
  • Blog
  • 6th Feb 2020

BIT Crime Week #4 What works to prevent violence?

The Victorian surgeon, Robert Liston, was known as “the fastest knife in the West End”, supposedly amputating a leg in under two and a half minutes.1 In 1846, he also pioneered the use of ether as an anaesthetic, allowing patients to undergo surgery pain-free. The practice was rapidly adopted by surgeons,…
  • Blog
  • 5th Feb 2020

BIT Crime Week #3 Could knife crime in London be driven by technological change?

In short, our working thesis is that the rise in knife crime – particularly prevalent since 2015 – might in part be driven by technological change. You might wonder how the two are possibly related?! The argument we make, as captured in BIT’s report for the Mayor of London’s Violence…
  • Blog
  • 4th Feb 2020

BIT Crime Week #2 Fighting crime with data and innovation

I’d never seen a corpse before. I stepped carefully to avoid blood and body parts as people ran from the terrorists, who proclaimed their allegiance to a banned far-right group. The Armed Response Vehicles arrived within 6 minutes of being called and snipers scaled the roof, but already several people…
  • Blog
  • 3rd Feb 2020

BIT Crime Week #1 Violence in London: what we know and how to respond

In the early hours of the first day of January 2019, a man was killed while working as a security guard at a New Year’s Eve party after he intervened to help a colleague involved in a struggle. In February, a man was murdered after refusing to give a stranger…
  • Report
  • 30th Jan 2020

Violence in London: what we know and how to respond

We have worked with the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit to carry out the first ever capital-wide assessment of violence. In our new report we bring together data analysis and new research from leading academics to complement the voices of London’s communities with evidence of large-scale patterns and trends…
  • Blog
  • 27th Jan 2020

Remembering the Holocaust

"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
  • Blog
  • 25th Nov 2019

What can we do to combat Intimate Partner Violence?

At least 1 in 3 women in Latin America have experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). We partnered with the International Development Bank (IDB) to identify behavioural barriers that IPV survivors and service providers face when tackling this issue in the region and propose solutions to overcome these barriers .

Also available in: Español

  • Blog
  • 25th Nov 2019

¿Qué más podemos hacer para combatir la violencia contra las mujeres?

Al menos una de cada tres mujeres latinoamericanas ha sido experimentado violencia perpetrado por su pareja. Establecimos una colaboración con el Banco Internacional de Desarrollo (BID) para identificar las barreras de comportamiento que enfrentan las sobrevivientes de IPV y los prestadores de servicios al abordar este problema en la región.

Also available in: English

  • Report
  • 25th Nov 2019

Applying behavioral insights to Intimate Partner Violence

This report leverages insights from the behavioral sciences, including behavioral economics, social psychology and neuroscience, to provide recommendations to improve the design of survivor services in the LAC region and, ultimately, to lead to better life outcomes for women