Emmeline Taylor
Professor of Criminology, City St George’s, University of London
Dr Emmeline Taylor is Professor in criminology at City St George's, University of London. She is also Director of the Aptus Business Crime Research Centre. Emmeline has more than 15 years of experience in research across the private, public and academic sectors.
A multi award-winning author, broadcaster and consultant, Prof. Emmeline Taylor specialises in understanding business crime, with a particular focus on crime and security issues impacting the retail sector both online and in bricks and mortar stores. Professor Taylor’s career spans over 20 years, during which time she has worked in the public, private and academic sectors, and on three continents. She has been employed at universities ranked in the Global Top 20 in Singapore and Australia. She is now based at the University of London and is the Director of Aptus; the Business Crime Research Centre.
Professor Taylor has published extensively on crime-related topics, including 50+ articles and chapters, and six books, the most recent of which is Armed Robbers, published by Oxford University Press (based on interviews with incarcerated prisoners in six Australian prisons). Emmeline has produced many industry reports on retail crime, including Stealing with Impunity (Co-op, 2023), Fortress Stores: How to Keep Most-at-Risk Stores Trading (ECR, 2023) and Lighting Up: How Tobacco Track and Trace Could Illuminate the Stolen Goods Markets (NBCC, 2024). In the UK, she is Chair of the Business Crime Reduction Partnerships National Standards Board and sits on the Ministerial Retail Crime Forum. She is regularly called upon to give evidence and expert insight on national enquiries/panels relating to crime, surveillance and technology. Her work has a demonstrable impact on influencing policy, practice and legislation across industry, the police and government.
Emmeline is regularly featured in international press, averaging 1000+ stories a year to a global audience of approximately 4 billion. She is the host of the retail crime podcast Retail Crime Uncovered, sponsored by Sekura Global.
