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Lawrence W. Sherman

Lawrence W. Sherman (born 25 October 1949) is an experimental criminologist and police educator who defined the concept of evidence-based policing. Since October 2024 he has served as Chief Executive Officer of Benchmark Cambridge, a global police reform organisation. Between 2022 and 2024, he was Chief Scientific Officer of the Metropolitan Police at Scotland Yard; since 2007, he has served as the Wolfson Professor of Criminology and since 2017 as Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology.

Sherman's use of randomised controlled experiments to study deterrence and crime prevention has led him to examine such wide-ranging issues as domestic violence, saturation patrol, gun violence, drug-dealing houses, and police-led restorative justice with reintegrative shaming. He has collaborated with over 30 police and justice agencies around the world; he has also been credited as a key founder of the field of experimental criminology. Since 2017, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing. Provided by Wikipedia