Lawrence W. Sherman

Lawrence W. Sherman is an experimental criminologist and the founder of evidencebased policing. Since 2007 he has been the Wolfson Professor of Criminology and from 2012 the Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University. The founding director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology since 2008, he also serves as Chair of the Cambridge Police Executive Programme and CEO of the Cambridge Centre for EvidenceBased Policing. A Distinguished University Professor at the University of Marylands Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice in College Park since 2010, Shermans use of randomized controlled experiments to study deterrence and crime prevention has led him to examine such wideranging issues as domestic violence, police crackdowns and saturation patrol, gun violence and crime, crack houses, and reintegrative shaming. He has collaborated with overpolice and justice agencies around the world. Lawrence Sherman is best known in science as a

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