Ella Cockbain

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When bad evidence is worse than no evidence: Quilliam’s “grooming gangs” report and its legacy

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20th March 2019

Dr Ella Cockbain, Lecturer in Security and Crime Science, UCL

ANALYSIS: Dr Ella Cockbain, a Lecturer in Security and Crime Science at the Jill Dando Institute, raises serious concerns over the Qulliam Foundation's influential report on grooming gangs and how it has fuelled an inaccurate and dangerous narrative around 'Asian grooming gangs'.

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Ella Cockbain
Lecturer in Security and Crime Science at the Jill Dando Institute, University College London (UCL).
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Dr Ella Cockbain is a Lecturer in Security and Crime Science at the Jill Dando Institute, University College London (UCL). Her research focuses on serious and organised crime and its prevention, in particular child sexual exploitation, labour exploitation and human trafficking. She has published widely on these topics, including the recent book Offender and Victim Networks in Human Trafficking, which focuses on complex child sexual exploitation/internal trafficking. She tweets as @DrEllaC This article builds on her earlier Twitter critique of the Quilliam report.