Understanding and preventing ‘cuckoo’ victimisation

Start date: 1 April 2022
End date: 31 March 2023
Funder: N8 Policing Research Partnership
Value: £26,101
Primary investigator: Dr Laura Bainbridge
External co-investigators: Professor Charlie Lloyd (University of York)

This project will investigate ‘cuckooing’ victimisation, the practice of drug dealers taking over the home of a vulnerable person for use as a base of operations.

The project will seek to interview victims and perpetrators to establish how, when and why cuckoo victims are targeted, with the aim of producing a ‘preventing cuckooing’ tactical plan for local delivery groups.