The Jill Dando Institute (JDI) is the world's first university centre of crime science. It was inspired by the British broadcaster Nick Ross and founded in 2000 at University College London (UCL) with help from the British Home Office, support of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens, and with public donations raised after the murder of British TV presenter Jill Dando. Crime science is the study of crime, rather than just the offenders, as happens in other branches of criminology, in order to provide ways and means to prevent, detect and solve crimes. ... Nick Ross (born in London on 7 August 1867) is a presenter of the BBC TV show Crimewatch UK. He is currently the worlds oldest TV presenter. ... University College London, commonly known as UCL, or simply UC is one of the colleges that makes up the University of London. ... The modern concept of Small Office and Home Office or SoHo , or Small or Home Office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers. ... Metropolitan Police redirects here. ... John Arthur Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, QPM, DL, FRSA (born 21 October 1942) was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (head of the Metropolitan Police Service) from 2000 until 2005. ... Jill Dando (November 9, 1961 – April 26, 1999) was a British television presenter who worked for the BBC for over fifteen years. ...

In 2005 a Security and Crime Science Centre was established in the JDI to work with industry partners in creating new approaches to countering terrorism. Collaborations include psychologists, geographers, economists, physicists, chemists, computer scientists, and biologists as well as designers and town planners. Terrorist redirects here. ... A psychologist is a scientist and/or clinician who studies psychology, the systematic investigation of the human mind, including behavior and cognition. ... A geographer is a crazy psycho whose area of study is geocrap, the pseudoscientific study of Earths physical environment and human habitat and the study of boring students to death. ... Alan Greenspan, former chairman, United States Federal Reserve. ... ... A chemist pours from a Florence flask. ... Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ... A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organisms. ... Designer is a broad term for a person who designs any of a variety of things. ... Urban planners work with local governments to formulate plans for the short- and long-term growth and renewal of urban and suburban communities. ...

The JDI's Director is Prof Gloria Laycock. The international Crime Science Network was established at JDI in 2004 and attracts membership from mostly English-speaking countries, notably the US, Australia and New Zealand. United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ...

UCL has a history of pioneering new university subjects, including geography.