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All the latest news: Technology Digitisation Cybercrime Apps

Here you can find over 60 posts covering the latest apps and other innovations in the justice and substance misuse sectors. If you’re looking for something in particular, try the search box below.

Prisoners solve cold cases

Police services in the US and Netherlands distribute cold case playing cards and calendars to get prisoners’ help in solving cold cases.

Probation supervision by smartphone

US app provides suite of supervision tools including GPS tracking, breathalyser, check-in service and reward and sanction behaviour reinforcement.

New app to combat hate crime

New app supported by London Mayor and Victim Support makes it easy to capture, secure and report evidence of hate crime.

Stopping smoking in prison

New digital intervention from Breaking Free is specifically designed to aid smoking cessation in a prison environment, accompanied by short groupwork programme.

Can an algorithm replace bail hearings?

New Jersey is trying to address the racial discrimination which is built-in to its bail decision making process by using a specially created algorithm.

How Twitter helps you stop smoking

Randomised controlled trial finds that participation in private twitter groups doubles your chance of successfully giving up smoking.

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