Research








By Lawrence Sherman

Beyond Dial-A-Cop: A Randomized Test of Repeat Call Address Policing (RECAP) (1989).

Beyond dial a cop

Reducing Deadly Force in US Policing: A View from England and Wales - (2015) Statement to the Presidential Task Force on 21st Century Policing

Presidential Task Force Statement

Evidence-Based Policing - (1998) Police Foundation Article

Evidence-Based Policing Article

A Case For The Research Police Department - (1979) Magazine Article

Research Police Department Aritcle


Attacking Crime: Police and Crime Control - (1992) Crime and Justice, Modern Policing

Attacking crime article

Beyond Dial-A-Cop: A Randomized Test of Repeat Call Address Policing (RECAP) - (1989) Crime Control Institute

RECAP Report

Citizens Killed By Big City Police, 1970-84 - (1986) Crime Control Institute

Citizens Killed Article

Hot Spots of Crime and Criminal Careers of Places - (1995) Crime and Place

Hot Spots Crime Careers Places Article

Increased death rates of domestic violence victims from arresting vs. warning suspects in the Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment (MilDVE) by Lawrence W. Sherman & Heather M. Harris - (2014) Journal of Experimental Criminology

MilDVE death rates article

Offender Desistance Policing (ODP) - Less Prison And More Evidence In Rehabilitating Offenders (2012) Book Chapter

Offender Desistance Policing Chapter

Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising - (1998) National Institute of Justice

Preventing Crime In Brief
Full Preventing Crime Report


Reducing Fatal Police Shootings as ‘Systems Crashess’: Research, Theory, and Practice Read

 

Repeat Calls To Police In Minneapolis (1987) Download


Restorative Justice: The Evidence - (2007) Book

Restorative Justice

The Kansas City Gun Experiment - (1995) National Institute of Justice

Kansas City Gun Experiment

The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment - (1984) Police Foundation Reports

Minneapolis DV Experiment Report

Trust and Confidence in Criminal Justice - (2001)

Trust and confidence article

Youth Workers, Police and Gangs: Chicago, 1956 - 1970 - (1970) MA Thesis by Lawrence Sherman, University of Chicago

Youth workers gangs thesis

 

By Heather Strang

EXPERIMENTS IN RESTORATIVE POLICING: FINAL REPORT on the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE) and Mortality Followup 2013, by Heather Strang et al.

By Heather Strang, Australian National University*, Project Director
Lawrence W. Sherman, University of Cambridge, Principal Investigator and Scientific Director
Daniel Woods, Police Executive Research Forum, Washington DC, Data Analysis
Geoffrey Barnes, University of Pennsylvania, Data Analysis. 

Chapters 1 & 2 - Introduction & Research Design & Methods

Chapter 3 - The Four Experiments: Offenders And Victims

Chapter 4 - What Happened In Court And Conference

Chapter 5 - Offender Reactions To Court And Conference

Chapter 6 - Long-Term Effects Of Court And Conference

Chapter 7 - Victim Perspectives On Court And Conference

Chapter 8 - Police Attitudes Towards Court And Conference

Presentation

 


By Matt Bland

Targeting Escalation in Reported Domestic Abuse: Evidence From 36,000 Callouts Link

‘Lowering the threshold of effective deterrence’—Testing the effect of private security agents in public spaces on crime: A randomized controlled trial in a mass transit system Download

The Felonious Few vs. The Miscreant Many Download

Is Crime Rising or Falling? A Comparison of Police-Recorded Crime and Victimization Surveys Link


 

By Natalie Hiltz

Victim-Offender Overlap in Violent Crime: Targeting Crime Harm in a Canadian Suburb Link