Crime, Policing & Justice Team
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Alan Mackie
Partner, Civil and Criminal Justice; lead for social welfare 
Dr Matt HopkinsManaging Consultant, Crime Management, Justice and Social Welfare
Alan Mackie
Alan is Partner for Civil and Criminal Justice at Matrix Insight, and also has oversight of social welfare research. Alan joined the group in 2008, following the merger with MHB’s Crime Risk Management team, where he had previously been a partner. Prior to MHB, Alan worked in research at the Home Office Crime and Criminal Justice Unit. Over the past 14 years, Alan has worked on a number of crime and social policy research and evaluation projects for central and local government, including the Home Office, the Office of Criminal Justice Reform, and the Youth Justice Board. He has published on the effectiveness of the legal system, including the effectiveness of magistrates’ courts and the imposition of financial penalties.
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Dr Matt Hopkins
Matt joined Matrix as a Managing Consultant in 2008, as part of the merger with MHB. He has worked on a variety of crime and social welfare-related projects with both MHB and Matrix, including ‘The Scottish Business Crime Survey’ and a two year UK Home Office Crime Reduction Project on the enforcement of financial penalties. He has also worked in collaboration with Cardiff University (with Professor Mike Maguire) on an evaluation of a Targeted Policing Initiative project on Alcohol Related Violence in Nottinghamshire. Matt studied for his PhD at Nottingham Trent University, where he continues to teach as an associate lecturer in criminology. He has also published extensively, on a wide range of criminological issues, in the British Journal of Criminology, the International Review of Victimology, the Security Journal and The International Journal of Risk, Security and Crime Prevention.
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Dr Barrie Irving
Barrie joined Matrix Insight in 2006, as Partner for Policing. He has an impressive record of academic social research in crime and policing, and has held positions at the University of California (Berkeley), the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, Keele University, and the University of Cambridge, where he is currently a visiting scholar at Pembroke College and the Institute of Criminology. Between 1980 and 2005 Barrie was initially the Director of Studies, then later Director, of the Police Foundation. He has published extensively on the psychology of work, policing, and crime, and is a major authority on the current state of police reform.
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Dr Matt Hopkins
Matt joined Matrix as a Managing Consultant in 2008, as part of the merger with MHB. He has worked on a variety of crime and social welfare-related projects with both MHB and Matrix, including ‘The Scottish Business Crime Survey’ and a two year UK Home Office Crime Reduction Project on the enforcement of financial penalties. He has also worked in collaboration with Cardiff University (with Professor Mike Maguire) on an evaluation of a Targeted Policing Initiative project on Alcohol Related Violence in Nottinghamshire. Matt studied for his PhD at Nottingham Trent University, where he continues to teach as an associate lecturer in criminology. He has also published extensively, on a wide range of criminological issues, in the British Journal of Criminology, the International Review of Victimology, the Security Journal and The International Journal of Risk, Security and Crime Prevention.
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