'Two Cheers for Evidence-Based Policing: A 20-Year Review': Lawrence Sherman (audio)
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The Institute of Criminology holds an annual international conference on Evidence Based Policing, Chaired by Professor Lawrence Sherman in association with the Society for Evidence Based Policing (SEBP).
The 11th conference was held at the Sidgwick site at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 9-11 July 2018. This talk: 'Two Cheers for Evidence-Based Policing: A 20-Year Review' Chair: Chief Constable John D. Parkinson OBE, Cambridge University Speaker: Professor Lawrence W. Sherman KNO, Cambridge University Discussion: Chief Constable Parkinson moderating This entry provides an audio source for iTunes |
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| Created: | 2018-09-03 11:50 |
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| Collection: | Criminology: 11th Evidence Based Policing Conference |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | A.J. Gray |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Abstract: | Professor Lawrence Sherman KNO, FRSA, University of Cambridge
Lawrence W. Sherman is Chair of the Cambridge Police Executive Programme and Director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, and Director of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. He launched the field of evidence-based policing with his 1998 Police Foundation Lecture, and in 2017 founded the Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing, a “pracademic” journal featuring research led by practicing police officers. His own research interests are in the fields of crime prevention, evidence-based policy, restorative justice, police practices and experimental criminology. He has conducted field experiments, for example, on finding more effective ways to reduce homicide, gun violence, domestic violence, robbery, burglary, and repeat crime by low risk, high-volume offenders. With the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing, his team is currently providing evidence-based targeting algorithms for police resource allocation to police in Kent, Durham, Lancashire, Devon & Cornwall, and other countries. Sherman has served as president of the American Society of Criminology, the International Society of Criminology, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Academy of Experimental Criminology, and as Honorary President of the Society of Evidence-Based Policing. In recognition of his work, he has received a honorary Doctorates from the University of Stockholm and Denison University, as well as the Royal Society of Arts’ Benjamin Franklin Medal, the Beccaria Medal of the German Society of Criminology. In 2016 King Carl Gustav appointed him a Knight Commander (KNO) of Sweden, and in 2017 the President of Yale University awarded him the Wilbur Cross Medal. |
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