Lawrence W. Sherman

Lawrence W. Sherman (born Schenectady, NY, 25 October 1949) is an experimental criminologist and 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, where he was also appointed founding director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology in 2008, and is also Director of the Cambridge Police Executive Programme. He was also appointed Distinguished University Professor in 1998 at the University of Maryland's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice in College Park. Sherman’s primary research interests include crime prevention, evidence based policy, restorative justice, police practices and experimental criminology. His son, Eliot Sherman, is a PhD student in organizational behavior at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and his daughter, Katharine, is an MFA student in playwriting at the University of Iowa.