Lawrence W. Sherman (USA)

Co-chairman
Lawrence W. Sherman, the Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University and Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, is also Director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology and the Police Executive Programme at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. The President Honoraire of the Societe' Internationale de Criminologie, he is also past President of the American Society of Criminology and the Ametrican Academy of Political and Social Science. The author of numerous controlled field experiments testing theories of crime prevention, police practices and criminal sanctions, he has received awards for distinguished scholarship from the American Sociological Association, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Academy of Experimental Criminology, American Society of Criminology, the Society of Criminology of German-Speaking Nations, and other learned societies.