Research








By Lawrence Sherman

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

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

Evidence-Based Policing - (1998) Police Foundation Article

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Trust and Confidence in Criminal Justice - (2001)

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


 

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