Lawrence Sherman

Wolfson Professor, University of Cambridge 

 

 

Lawrence Sherman is Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, Chair of the Cambridge Police Executive Programme, and Honorary President of the Society for Evidence-Based Policing.

 

He is best known for his randomized field experiments in policing, for which he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts in 2011.

 

His work includes the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (with Richard Berk), the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (with Heather Strang), the Kansas City Gun Experiment (with Dennis Rogan), and the 23-year follow up of the Milwaukee Domestic Violence Arrest Experiment (with Heather Harris), winner of the 2014 Outstanding Experimental Field Trial Award of the American Society of Criminology. He holds other honours from the German Society of Criminology, the Campbell Collaboration, and several universities.