The video below is of Professor Gloria Laycock, Director of the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science talking about near repeat patterns and other risk forecasting methodologies being researched at the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science. She makes an interesting statement in regards to the differences between criminology and crime science which she describes as:

…the use of science and scientists directly in the control of crime. Not just using technology, but getting everyone to think as scientists and test hypotheses to build knowledge from the data