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DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTIES IN POLICING SERIOUS CRIME

A One-Day Conference Thursday 8 October 2009, 9am – 6pm Bob Douglas Lecture Theatre Eggleston Road The Australian National University Canberra ACT

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE PAPERS FROM THIS CONFERENCE ARE NOW BEING PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION. TO VIEW THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS [CLICK HERE]. The password is available from Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au.

THE PAPERS FROM THIS CONFERENCE ARE NOW BEING PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION.

TO VIEW THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS CLICK HERE. THE PASSWORD IS AVAILABLE FROM gabriele.bammer@anu.edu.au

 

How can police make effective decisions when information is limited?

How does confirmation bias affect investigations, and how can we overcome it?

Why do certainties in policing seem uncertain in court?

What can police learn from business methods for dealing with uncertainty?

This conference aims to enhance policing effectiveness by catalysing research into the neglected area of how uncertainties are understood and managed in the policing of serious crime. Uncertainty is not only overlooked in policing, but more generally in western science and philosophy. Policing, along with other practice areas and academic disciplines, has developed its own ways of dealing with uncertainty. But, in general, the strategies used in each practice area and discipline are incomplete and very limited. This conference provides a forum for cross-fertilization to enrich the understanding and management of unknowns in policing.

WHO IS SPEAKING

The presenters are a select invited group of senior researchers and practitioners with expertise in specific areas relevant to uncertainty and policing serious crime.

• Ms Robyn Attewell, Australian Federal Police
• Hon Tim Carmody, SC
• Professor Neil Fargher, The Australian National University
• Associate Professor Tracey Green, Charles Sturt University
• Associate Professor Mark Kebbell, Griffith University
• Professor Carmen Lawrence, University of Western Australia
• Mr Steve Longford, NewIntelligence
• Assistant Commissioner Peter Martin, Queensland Police Service
• Mr Alastair Milroy, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security
• Professor Michael Smithson, The Australian National University
• Drs Mark Westcott and Richard Jarrett, CSIRO
• Ms Sue Wilkinson, Australian New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

We anticipate that the conference will be of interest to policing researchers and to senior police and policing agency managers.

FORMAT

The one day conference will be organized into four blocks:

1. Scene setting, with presentations on the range of uncertainties involved in policing serious crime and on frameworks for thinking about uncertainties in new ways
2. Enhancing the use of established ways of dealing with uncertainties in policing serious crime
3. Introducing different perspectives on uncertainty, with presentations on how uncertainty is understood differently in the adjunct areas of the law, politics and business
4. Reflections by a panel representing a range of practice perspectives.

PROGRAM

SPEAKERS & ORGANISERS

 

For further information about this conference please contact Damon Muller on (02) 6125 5624 or damon.muller@anu.edu.au