Teaching Faculty Profiles

Lawrence W. Sherman
Director, Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania
Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, UK

B.A., Denison University, 1970; M.A. (Social Science), University of Chicago, 1970; Diploma in Criminology, Cambridge University, 1973; M.A. (Sociology), Yale University, 1974; Ph.D., Yale University, 1976

Email: lws@sas.upenn.edu
See also: Academy of Experimental Criminology: Fellows
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Research Areas

Professor Sherman's research areas include restorative justice, police practices, and defiance theory.

Current Projects

Professor Sherman is currently working on homicide prevention in Philadelphia, and restorative justice in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Academic Positions Held

1974-1976: Associate-in-Research, Department of Sociology, Yale University
1976-1979: Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Albany, School of Criminal Justice
1979-1982: Associate Professor, State University of New York at Albany, School of Criminal Justice
1982-1984: Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park
1984-1999: Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park
1987: Seth Boyden Distinguished Visiting Professor Rutgers University, Graduate School of Criminal Justice
1994-present: Adjunct Professor of Law, Research School of Social Science, Australian National University
1995-1999: Chair, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park
1989-1999: Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
1999-present: Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
1999-2007: Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, University of Pennsylania
1999-2005: Director, Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania
2000-2007: Chair, Graduate Group in Criminology, University of Pennsylvania
2000-present: Director, Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania
2003- present: Professor of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania
2003-2007: Chair, Department of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania
2007-present: Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Cambridge University, UK

Career and Recent Professional Awards

President, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2001-2006 President, American Society of Criminology, 2001-2002

President, International Society of Criminology, 2000-2005

President, Academy of Experimental Criminology, 1999-2001

Edwin H. Sutherland Award, American Society of Criminology, 1999

Distinguished Scholarship Award in Crime, Law and Deviance, American Sociological Association, 1993

Bruce Smith Sr. Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, 1994

Fellow, American Society of Criminology, elected 1994

Representative Publications

Evidence-Based Crime Prevention, co eds., David P. Farrington, Brandon Welsh and Doris MacKenzie. London: Routledge, 2002.

Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. Report to the U.S. Congress, Sherman, et al. 1997. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Justice.

Policing Domestic Violence: Experiments and Dilemmas. N.Y.: Free Press, 1992. (Winner of 1993-94 Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association, Section on Crime, Law and Deviance).

“Crime, Punishment and Stake in Conformity: Legal and Informal Control of Domestic Violence,“ with Douglas A. Smith. Am. Sociological Review, 57(5): 680-690 (1992).

“The Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault,“ with Richard A. Berk. Am. Sociological Review, 49(2): 261-272 (l984).

“Hot Spots of Predatory Crime: Routine Activities and the Criminology of Place,“ with Patrick R. Gartin, and Michael E. Buerger. Criminology 27: 27-55 (1989).

Scandal and Reform: Controlling Police Corruption. Berkeley: University of California Press (l978) 304 pp.

“Execution Without Trial: Police Homicide and the Constitution.“ Vanderbilt Law Review 33, 1:71-100 (l980). [Cited by U. S. Supreme Court in Tennessee v. Garner, l985]

“Gun Carrying and Homicide Prevention.” Journal of the American Medical Association 283: 1193-1195. March 1, 2000.

 

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