Lawrence W. Sherman
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Evidence-Based Crime Prevention
Lawrence W. Sherman, et al, Research-in-Brief. 1998. Preventing Crime: What Works, What
Doesn't, What's Promising. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice, 20 pp.
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/171676.pdf
Lawrence W. Sherman, 1998 Evidence-Based Policing. Washington, DC: Police Foundation.
http://www.policefoundation.org/pdf/Sherman.pdf
Lawrence W. Sherman, et al. 1997. Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's
Promising. Report to the U.S. Congress. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Justice, 655 pp.
http://www.ncjrs.gov/works/
Lawrence W. Sherman, 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). Click here
Susan E. Martin and Lawrence W. Sherman 1986
Catching Career Criminals: The Washington, D.C. Repeat Offender Experiment.
Washington,D.C.: Police Foundation.
http://www.policefoundation.org/pdf/CatchingCareerCriminals.pdf
Lawrence W. Sherman, 2000.
“The Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program.” Pp. 125-155 in Diane Ravitch, ed., Brookings
Papers on Education Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
http://brookings.nap.edu/books/0815773579/html/125.html#pagetop
Domestic Violence and Domestic Homicide
Lawrence W. Sherman and Douglas A. Smith, "Crime, Punishment and Stake in Conformity:
Legal and Informal Control of Domestic Violence." Am. Sociological Review, 57(5): 680-690
(1992). Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman and Richard A. Berk, "The Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for
Domestic Assault." Am. Sociological Review, 49(2): 261-272 (l984). Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman and Richard A. Berk 1984
The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment. Washington, D.C.: Police Foundation
Reports, #1, 8 pp. http://www.policefoundation.org/pdf/minneapolisdve.pdf
Lawrence W. Sherman 1993
"Defiance, Deterrence and Irrelevance: A Theory of the Criminal Sanction." Journal of
Research in Crime and Delinquency 30: 445-473. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman, Janell D. Schmidt, Dennis Rogan, and Christine De Riso 1991
"Predicting Domestic Homicide: Prior Police Contact and Gun Threats." pp. 73-94 in Michael
Steinman, ed., Woman Battering: Policy Responses. An Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences Book. Cincinnati, Oh.: Anderson Publishing. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman and Heather Strang 1996 “Policing Domestic Violence: The ProblemSolving Paradigm.” Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social
Sciences. http://www.aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/sherman-strang.html
Hot Spots of Crime
Lawrence W. Sherman, Patrick R. Gartin, and Michael E. Buerger, "Hot Spots of Predatory
Crime: Routine Activities and the Criminology of Place." Criminology 27: 27-55 (1989). Click
Here
Lawrence W. Sherman 1995 "Hot Spots of Crime and Criminal Careers of Places." pp. 35-52
in John E. Eck and David Weisburd, eds., Crime and Place. Crime Prevention Studies, Vol. 1.
Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.
David Weisburd, Lisa Maher and Lawrence W. Sherman 1993 "Contrasting Crime-Specific
and Crime-General Theory: Hot Spots of Predatory Crime." pp. 45-70 in Freda Adler and
William S. Laufer, eds., Advances in Criminological Theory, Vol. 4. New Brunswick:
Transaction. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman and David Weisburd 1995.
"General Deterrent Effects of Police Patrol in Crime Hot Spots: A Randomized,
Controlled Trial." Justice Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4: 635-648. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman and Dennis P. Rogan 1995. "Deterrent Effects of Police Raids on
Crack Houses: A Randomized, Controlled Experiment" Justice Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4.
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Police Use of Deadly Force
Lawrence W. Sherman, 1980
"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] Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman 1983
"Reducing Police Gun Use: Critical Events, Administrative Policy and Organizational
Change," pp. 98-125 in Maurice Punch, Ed., Control in the Police Organization. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press. [Cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Tennessee V. Garner,
1985.] Click Here
Gun Violence
Lawrence W. Sherman, 2001
“Reducing Gun Violence: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising.” Pp. 69-96 in
Perspectives on Crime and Justice: The 1999–2000 Lecture Series. Vol. IV. March.
Washington DC: National Institute of Justice.
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/184245.pdf
Lawrence W. Sherman and Dennis P. Rogan 1995.
"Effects of Gun Seizures on Gun Violence: Hot Spot Patrols in Kansas City" Justice
Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman, 1983 "Police in the Laboratory of Criminal Justice," pp. 26-43 1983 in
Kenneth R. Feiberg, Editor, Violent Crime in America. Washington, D.C.: National Policy
Exchange. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman, James Shaw and Dennis Rogan 1995
The Kansas City Gun Experiment. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice.
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/kang.pdf
Police Corruption
Lawrence W. Sherman, Scandal and Reform: Controlling Police Corruption. Berkeley:
University of California Press (l978) 304 pp. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman, 1974
"Introduction: Towards a Sociological Theory of Police Corruption," pp. 1-39 in L.W.
Sherman, Ed., Police Corruption: A Sociological Perspective. New York: Anchor
Books/Doubleday. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman 1974
"Becoming Bent: Moral Careers of Corrupt Policemen," pp. 191-208, in L.W. Sherman,
Ed., Police Corruption: A Sociological Perspective. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman 1974 "Police Corruption Control: New York, London, Paris," pp.
213-245 in L.W. Sherman, Ed., Police Corruption: A Sociological Perspective. Click
Here
Community Policing and Private Security
Lawrence W. Sherman, 1983 "Police in the Laboratory of Criminal Justice," pp. 26-43 1983 in
Kenneth R. Feiberg, Editor, Violent Crime in America. Washington, D.C.: National Policy
Exchange. Click Here
Antony M. Pate, Mary Ann Wycoff, Wesley Skogan and Lawrence W. Sherman. 1986
Reducing Fear of Crime in Houston and Newark. Washington, D.C.: Police Foundation, 48 pp.
http://www.policefoundation.org/pdf/Reducing_Fear_of_Crime_in_Houston_and_Newark.pdf
Lawrence W. Sherman ,1993
"Preventing Homicide Through Trial and Error." pp. 21-33 in Heather Strang, ed., Homicide:
Patterns, Prevention and Control. Canberra, ACT: Australian Institute of Criminology
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/17/sherman.pdf
Lawrence W. Sherman 1995 "Public Regulation of Private Crime Prevention" Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 539, pp. 102-113. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman, 2002. “Trust and Confidence in Criminal Justice.” National
Institute of Justice Journal 248: 23-31. http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/jr000248e.pdf
Experimental Methods and Research Design
Lawrence W. Sherman 2003
“Misleading Evidence and Evidence-Led Policy: Making Social Science More
Experimental.”Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 589: 6-19.
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Lawrence W. Sherman, 2004
“Research and Policing: The Infrastructure and Political Economy of Federal Funding.”
Pp. in Wesley Skogan, ed., “To Better Serve and Protect” Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science 593 pp. 1-12. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman and Heather Strang 2004. “Verdicts or Inventions? Interpreting
Randomized Controlled Trials in Criminology.” In Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber,
eds, Experimental Methods in the Political Sciences. American Behavioral Scientist 47
(5): 575-607. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman and Heather Strang 2004 “Experimental Ethnography: The
Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Research” in Elijah Anderson, Scott N. Brooks,
Raymond Gunn and Nikki Jones, eds. Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science 595. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman 2005 “The Use and Usefulness of Criminology, 1751 to 2005:
Enlightened Justice and Its Failures” Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science 600: 115-135. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman 2000
“Reducing Incarceration Rates: The Promise of Experimental Criminology. Crime and
Delinquency 46 (3): 299-314. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman and Barry D. Glick 1984
The Quality of Police Arrest Statistics. Washington, D.C.: Police Foundation Reports #2,
8 pp.
http://www.policefoundation.org/pdf/arreststatistics.pdf
Restorative Justice
Lawrence W. Sherman, Heather Strang, Caroline Angel, Daniel Woods, Meredith
Rossner, Geoffrey C. Barnes, Sarah Bennett and Nova Inkpen, 2005
“Effects of Face-to-Face Restorative Justice on Victims of Crime in Four Randomized,
Controlled Trials” Journal of Experimental Criminology (1:3) 367-395. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman 2003 “Reason for Emotion: Reinventing Justice with Theories,
Innovations and Research. 2002 ASC Presidential Address” Criminology 41 (1): 1-38.
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Heather Strang and Lawrence W. Sherman 2003 “Repairing the Harm: Victims and
Restorative Justice.” Pp. 15-42, Utah Law Review, No. 1.
http://www.law.utah.edu/_files/academic/journals/utahlawreview/2003_1/02Strang.pdf
Lawrence W. Sherman. 2001. “Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Restoration. Pp. 35-55
In Heather Strang and John Braithwaite, eds., Restorative Justice and Civil Society.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Click Here
Lawrence W. Sherman, Heather Strang, and Daniel J. Woods. 2000 “Recidivism Patterns in
the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE)” Canberra: Centre for Restorative
Justice, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
http://www.aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/recidivism/
Heather Strang, Geoffrey Barnes, John Braithwaite and Lawrence W. Sherman
1999.EXPERIMENTS IN RESTORATIVE POLICING 1999. A Progress Report on the
Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE). Canberra: Australian National
University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html).
http://www.aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/progress/1999.html