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Lawrence W. Sherman
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 189
Citations - 18876
Lawrence W. Sherman is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Restorative justice & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 181 publications receiving 17604 citations. Previous affiliations of Lawrence W. Sherman include Police Foundation & Australian National University.
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Hot Spots of Predatory Crime: Routine Activities and the Criminology of Place
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used spatial data on 323,979 calls to police over all 115,000 addresses and intersections in Minneapolis over 1 year, showing that crime is both rare (only 3.6% of the city could have had a robbery with no repeat addresses) and concentrated, although the magnitude of concentration varies by offense type.
Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. Research in Brief. National Institute of Justice.
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The specific deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault.
TL;DR: The findings falsify a deviance amplification model of labeling theory beyond initial labeling, and fail to falsify the specific deterrence prediction for a group of offenders with a high percentage of prior histories of both domestic violence and other kinds of crime.
Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising
Lawrence W. Sherman,Denise C. Gottfredson,Doris L. MacKenzie,John E. Eck,Peter Reuter,Shawn D. Bushway +5 more
TL;DR: In 1996, a Federal law required the U.S. Attorney General to provide Congress with an independent review of the Many crime prevention programs work. Others don’t.