Key details
Professor Daniel Silverstone
Head of the School of Law and Criminology
Professor Daniel Silverstone is the Head of the School of Law and Criminology at the University of Greenwich. Previously, he has worked as the Director of the School of Justice Studies and the Centre for Advanced Policing Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Before this, he was the Head of Criminology and the John Grieve Centre at London Met University. His research interests are in the incidence of serious and organised crime and its policing. He has worked for multiple funders including the Home Office, Foreign Office and National Police Chiefs Council. He also currently works in the courts as an expert witness in the field of Human Trafficking.
Responsibilities within the university
Head of the School of Law and Criminology
Recognition
- Member of Academic advisory board for UNIC
- External Examiner Nottingham Trent University (2018-ongoing)
- External Examiner Anglia Ruskin University (2022-ongoing)
- External Examiner Bishop Burton College (2019-ongoing)
- Independent Expert Advisory Panel for the evaluation of ICTAS (2017-2018) Home Office
- Member of Independent Advisory Group Southwark Police (2012-2016)
Research / Scholarly interests
- Serious and Organised Crime
- Policing and Diversity
Key funded projects
| Date | Project | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-ongoing | McManus,M, Ball,E. Quigg,Z & Silverstone,D. Evaluation of County lines | |
| 2021 | McManus,M , Ball,E , McCoy,E , Harrison ,R Bates,R , Silverstone,D , Alexander,J., Quigg,Z. It wouldn’t be County Lines if there wasn’t exploitation’: Deep Dive exploration of Safeguarding Partnership responses to County Lines and Serious Youth Violence. Home office, Department of Education. | |
| 2021 | Silverstone, D.European analysis of the links between drugs trafficking and trafficking in human beings. EMCDDA. Restricted. | |
| 2020 | James,A.,Allen,C. Silverstone,D. An Evaluation of the UK's Proceeds of Crime Centre | £60,000 |
| 2019 | James, A., James A, Silverstone D, Carr R, Kelly T, Karecha J. A report for the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) on innovative programmes for the recruitment and training of investigators, currently in operation in police forces in England & Wales :1-91 | |
| 2020 | Barry,AM, Jesperson,S. & Silverstone,D.Organised Crime and trafficking in Albania, Nigeria and Vietnam. Home Office. Restricted | |
| 2018 | Watkinson,C., Millings,M. & Silverstone,D. An exploration of the criminal, dangerous and Anti-social Use of Motorcycles in Merseyside. LJMU | |
| 2018 | Silverstone,D. Safer Student Communities, HFCE | £75,000 |
| 2017 | Silverstone,D. & Brickell. Combating modern slavery experienced by Vietnamese nationals en route to, and within, the UK. IASC | |
| 2017 | Morgan,J, & Silverstone,D. Review of body worn cameras . City of London Police |
Media activity
- Silverstone,D. & Ludvigson. (2022) Panic Horror and Chaos: What went wrong at the champions league final
- Silverstone,D. & Walker, D. (2020) Police force diversity is improving in the UK – but there’s a long way to go
- Silverstone,D. (2019) How to prevent the deaths of more Vietnamese migrants trying to reach Britain
- Silverstone,D. (2019) Chinese irregular migration to Britain has a tragic history – how routes have evolved
- Silverstone,D. (2018) London violence: an expert (and father) comments
- Silverstone,D. (2018) Trafficking and UK-Vietnam relations (Originally published by The University of Nottingham, Institute of Asia & Pacific Studies Dialogue website)
- Silverstone,D. (2017) Trafficked to grow cannabis: Vietnamese migrants are being exploited in Britain
Recent publications
- Silverstone,D. (2021) Vietnamese Organised Crime, in Allum,F & Gilmore,S. (Ed) Handbook on Organised crime and politics. Edward; Elgar.
- Morgan,J. & Silverstone,D. (2022 ) Heroin user dealers: getting high on their own supply in C.Ancram (Ed) 'Understanding Drug Dealing and Illicit Drug Markets in the 21st Century: National and International Perspectives
- Shohel,M., Uddin,G, Parker-McLeod,J., & Silverstone,D. (2020) Police Education in the United Kingdom: Challenge and Future Directions.
- Silverstone,D., Chung,A., & Whittle,J. (2019) China: The ‘Red/Black Nexus, Politics and Organised Crime in F.Allum & S.Gilmour (Eds) Handbook on Organised crime and politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Silverstone,D. & Brickell (2017) Combating modern slavery experienced by Vietnamese nationals en route to, and within, the UK. IASC.
- Silverstone,D. (2016) Middle markets; Reflections on the work of Geoff Pearson in D.Hobbs (Ed) Mischief, Morality and Mobs Essays in Honour of Geoff Pearson. Taylor and Francis.
Presentations
- GCC Forensics conference (2019) Human trafficking
- Joint International Policing Hub in Liverpool (2017)
- Serious and Organised Crime Exchange (2019;2018;2017): Human trafficking and serious and organised crime
- Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (2019): Human trafficking and organised crime
- RUSSI (2019) Serious and organised crime
- Westminster Higher Education Forum (2018); Serious and organised crime