Meet the Team

Dr. Matthew Bland

Criminologist

Bio

Dr. Bland is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the Society of Evidence-Based Policing (UK) and a Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing.

For CCEBP he has led on many research projects in numerous police forces across England and Wales including a randomised controlled trial testing the impact of polygraphs as a condition of license for persons released on probation for domestic abuse offences. His research interests include Domestic Abuse and the development of solvability and risk assessment algorithms and their implementation within operational settings.

Dr. Bland was previously a lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, where lectured and supervised students on the M.St. Degree in Applied Criminology and Police Management (Police Executive Programme).

Formerly, he was Head of Strategic Analysis and Principal Intelligence Analyst for Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies for more than 15 years, during which time he played a leading role in the embedding of the National Intelligence Model and Force Management Statements.

Selected Publications

  • Ariel, Barak, and Matthew Bland (2019) ‘Is Crime Rising or Falling? A Comparison of Police-Recorded Crime and Victimization Surveys.’ In Mathieu Deflem and Derek M. D. Silva (Eds.) Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research: Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance. (24) Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 7–31.

  • Ariel, Barak, Matthew Bland, and Alex Sutherland (2017) ‘“Lowering the Threshold of Effective Deterrence”—Testing the Effect of Private Security Agents in Public Spaces on Crime: A Randomized Controlled Trial in a Mass Transit System.’ PloS ONE (12:12), 1–31.

  • Sherman, Lawrence W., Matthew Bland, Paul House,and Heather Strang (2016) The Felonious Few vs. The Miscreant Many: A Report to the Western Australia Police. Cambridge, Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing.

  • Bland, Matthew, and Barak Ariel (2015) ‘Targeting Escalation in Reported Domestic Abuse: Evidence from 36,000 Callouts.’ International Criminal Justice Review (25:1), 30–53.