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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Overview

Lawrence W. Sherman is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple subfields within the social sciences, particularly focusing on sociology, political science, health, clinical psychology, and physiology.

The primary topics of Sherman's work include crime patterns and interventions, policing practices and perceptions, gun ownership and violence research, criminal justice and corrections analysis, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry and sexual offending, nutrition and health in aging, and frailty in older adults.

Frequent publication venues for Sherman include the Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing, CrimRxiv, the Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Criminology & Public Policy.

Notable recent papers authored by Sherman are:

  • Evidence-Based Policing and Fatal Police Shootings: Promise, Problems, and Prospects, 2020, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • How to Count Crime: the Cambridge Harm Index Consensus, 2020, Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing
  • "Test-As-You-Go" for Hot Spots Policing: Continuous Impact Assessment with Repeat Crossover Designs, 2022, Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing
  • "Test-As-You-Go" for Hot Spots Policing: Continuous Impact Assessment with Repeat Crossover Designs, 2022, CrimRxiv

Among their frequent co-authors are David Weisburd, Heather Strang, Sumit Kumar, Vickie E. Baracos, and Andrew J.S. Coats.

Sherman has contributed to book publications as well, including the 2023 title The Future of Evidence-Based Policing, published by Cambridge University Press.

Their work encompasses a broad range of research areas, including the assessment of healthcare providers' knowledge and practice gaps, as demonstrated in the paper "Identification and management of cancer cachexia in patients: Assessment of healthcare providers' knowledge and practice gaps," published in 2022 in the Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle.

In 2009, Sherman was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Best Publications

  • Hot Spots of Predatory Crime: Routine Activities and the Criminology of Place

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Patrick R. Gartin;Michael E. Buerger

  • Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Denise C. Gottfredson;Doris L. MacKenzie;John E. Eck

  • The specific deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault.

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Richard A. Berk

  • Problem-Oriented Policing

    Lawrence W. Sherman

  • Defiance, Deterrence, and Irrelevance: A Theory of the Criminal Sanction

    Lawrence W. Sherman

  • General deterrent effects of police patrol in crime “hot spots”: A randomized, controlled trial

    Lawrence W. Sherman;David Weisburd

  • Policing Domestic Violence: Experiments and Dilemmas

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Janell D. Schmidt;Dennis P. Rogan

  • Restorative justice: the evidence

    Lawrence Sherman;Heather Strang;Geoffrey Barnes;Sarah Bennett

  • Do fair procedures matter? The effect of procedural justice on spouse assault.

    Raymond Paternoster;Ronet Bachman;Robert Brame;Lawrence W. Sherman

  • Police Crackdowns: Initial and Residual Deterrence

    Lawrence W. Sherman

  • The Rise of Evidence-Based Policing: Targeting, Testing, and Tracking

    Lawrence W. Sherman

  • Crime, punishment, and stake in conformity: Legal and informal control of domestic violence.

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Douglas A. Smith;Janell D. Schmidt;Dennis P. Rogan

  • Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. Research in Brief. National Institute of Justice.

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Denise C. Gottfredson;Doris L. MacKenzie;John Eck

  • Policing for crime prevention

    Lawrence W. Sherman;John E. Eck

  • Causes of Police Behavior: the Current State of Quantitative Research

    Lawrence W. Sherman

  • Scandal and Reform: Controlling Police Corruption

    Lawrence W. Sherman

  • Reintegrative Shaming, Procedural Justice, and Recidivism: The Engagement of Offenders' Psychological Mechanisms in the Canberra RISE Drinking-and-Driving Experiment

    Tom R. Tyler;Lawrence W Sherman;Heather Strang;Geoffrey C Barnes

  • Effects of gun seizures on gun violence: “Hot spots” patrol in Kansas city

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Dennis P. Rogan

  • Repairing the Harm: Victims and Restorative Justice

    Heather Strang;Lawrence W Sherman

  • RECIDIVISM PATTERNS IN THE CANBERRA REINTEGRATIVE SHAMING EXPERIMENTS (RISE)

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Daniel J. Woods

  • The Cambridge Crime Harm Index: Measuring Total Harm from Crime Based on Sentencing Guidelines

    Lawrence Sherman;Peter William Neyroud;Eleanor Neyroud

  • The variable effects of arrest on criminal careers: The Milwaukee domestic violence experiment

    Lawrence W. Sherman;J. D. Schmidt;DP Rogan;Dani A. Smith

  • Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising

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Frequent Co-Authors

Barak Ariel
Barak Ariel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Richard A. Berk
Richard A. Berk University of Pennsylvania
David P. Farrington
David P. Farrington University of Cambridge
Friedrich Lösel
Friedrich Lösel University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Denise C. Gottfredson
Denise C. Gottfredson University of Maryland, College Park
Ellen G. Cohn
Ellen G. Cohn Florida International University
Lorraine Mazerolle
Lorraine Mazerolle University of Queensland
Tom R. Tyler
Tom R. Tyler Yale University
Shawn D. Bushway
Shawn D. Bushway University at Albany, State University of New York
Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine University of Pennsylvania

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