ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the theories that underpin much research in crime science can contribute to thinking about the future and how they were used to identify emerging technologies with potential crime implications. It describes the methodology employed in our systematic review of research conducted at University College London and summarise key findings of the review. The chapter also discusses some of the developing technologies with implications for crime that were identified over the course of the project and crime prevention and the roles that different actors might play in preventing future crime. It summarizes some of the theoretical perspectives commonly used in crime-science research that informed our scanning work. The nature of crime is clearly changing. To illustrate, consider findings from the Crime Survey of England and Wales. As much cybercrime will go unnoticed, and many types of online offending were not considered in the survey, this is likely to be an underestimate of the scale of offending.
