Dainis Ignatans

Dainis Ignatans serves as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology within the Department of Social and Psychological Sciences at the University of Huddersfield's School of Human and Health Sciences. He maintains active affiliations with the Applied Criminology and Policing Centre and the Secure Societies Institute, contributing to interdisciplinary research initiatives focused on crime prevention and security.

His research expertise spans immigration-crime relationships, repeat victimization patterns, crime prevention strategies, and criminological trends analysis. Ignatans investigates the distribution of victimization across populations, relationships between crime statistics and actual incidents, policing effectiveness, and the spatial distribution of immigration-related crime. His work connects with UN Sustainable Development Goals related to justice, safety, and inclusive communities.

Recent publications reveal a strong focus on global criminology collaboration, language barriers in crime prevention research sharing, temporal aspects of re-victimization, emotional responses of crime victims, and spatial crime concentration patterns. His research demonstrates consistent international collaboration, particularly with co-authors Aleksejeva and Pease, addressing cross-cultural and transnational crime issues.

Ignatans actively supervises PhD students and has presented research internationally, including on 'Crime seriousness and attitudes towards the Police – UK and abroad' (December 2019). His media engagement includes the Russian-language program 'Поговорим По-честному' or 'Let's Speak Honestly' (July 2017), reflecting his interest in cross-cultural crime perspectives.