Barry Webb
Barry Webb currently heads up the Designing Out Crime programme in the Home Office. A psychologist by training, he has over 20 years experience of crime reduction research, policy and practice and has published on a range of crime topics including car crime, burglary, violence, vandalism, credit card fraud and fly-tipping. Prior to joining the Home Office, he spent seven years at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, researching the influence of the environment on crime with the late Barry Poyner. This work produced several influential publications including the book ‘Crime Free Housing’, guidance for the Health & Safety Executive on preventing violence to staff and case studies of ‘what works’ in reducing crime. In 1991, he joined the Home Office where he headed the Department’s crime reduction research programme for three years. He has recently returned to the Home Office from a period of secondment as Deputy Director of the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science where he set up the UCL Masters programme in Crime Science.
