Heroes and Heartache: Evidence-Based Policing of Rogue Cops - Lawrence Sherman

Professor Sherman is the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing and the Wolfson Professor of Criminology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, where he is also past Director (2012–2017) of the Institute of Criminology. Currently serving as Director of the Institute’s Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology, his 1998 Police Foundation Lecture on ‘Evidence-Based Policing’ is widely recognised as the foundation of a global movement generating professional societies for evidence-based policing in the UK, Australia-New Zealand, Canada and the US, now with over 5,000 members. Professor Sherman has served as the Honorary President of the Society of Evidence-Based Policing (UK) since its formation in 2010, and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing launched in 2017. He is also Director of the Cambridge Police Executive Programme, offering a part-time Master’s degree in Applied Criminology and Police Management at the University of Cambridge with over 170 students from ten countries.  

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In this talk, Professor Sherman suggests how we could identify police officers who are most likely to kill someone in advance.