Lawrence W. Sherman

Lawrence W. Sherman
Born	(1949-10-25) October 25, 1949 (age 67) Schenectady, New York
Residence	United Kingdom
Alma mater	Denison University University of Chicago Yale University
Organization	Cambridge University University of Maryland Academy of Experimental Criminology International Society of Criminology American Society of Criminology American Academy of Political and Social Science American Society of Criminology Society of Evidence-Based Policing

Lawrence W. Sherman (born Schenectady, New York October 25, 1949) is an experimental criminologist and police educator who is the founder of "evidence-based 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 Evidence-Based Policing. A Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice in College Park since 2010, Sherman's use of randomized controlled experiments to study deterrence and crime prevention has led him to examine such wide-ranging issues as domestic violence, police crackdowns and saturation patrol, gun violence and crime, crack houses, and reintegrative shaming. He has collaborated with over 30 police and justice agencies around the world. Lawrence Sherman is best known in science as an experimental criminologist, and to Ángel Cabrera, President of George Mason University, as the "father" of evidence-based policing. In 2016 he was appointed to a Swedish knighthood by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden.