The Institute of Criminology holds an annual international conference on Evidence Based Policing, Chaired by Professor Lawrence Sherman in association with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the Society for Evidence Based Policing (SEBP). The 5th conference was held at the Sidgwick site at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 9-11 July 2012. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

The Institute of Criminology holds an annual international conference on Evidence Based Policing, Chaired by Professor Lawrence Sherman in association with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the Society for Evidence Based Policing (SEBP). The 5th conference was held at the Sidgwick site at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 9-11 July 2012.

The Institute of Criminology holds an annual international conference on Evidence Based Policing, Chaired by Professor Lawrence Sherman in association with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the Society for Evidence Based Policing (SEBP). The 5th conference was held at the Sidgwick site at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 9-11 July 2012. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

The Institute of Criminology holds an annual international conference on Evidence Based Policing, Chaired by Professor Lawrence Sherman in association with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the Society for Evidence Based Policing (SEBP). The 5th conference was held at the Sidgwick site at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 9-11 July 2012. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

The Institute of Criminology holds an annual international conference on Evidence Based Policing, Chaired by Professor Lawrence Sherman in association with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the Society for Evidence Based Policing (SEBP). The 5th conference was held at the Sidgwick site at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 9-11 July 2012. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

Peter Neyroud served as a police officer in Hampshire, West Mercia, Thames Valley (as Chief Constable) and the National Policing Improvement Agency (as CEO). He has been a member of the Sentencing Guidelines Council, Parole Board, National Policing Board and National Criminal Justice Board. Before retiring from the police in 2010, he completed a “fundamental review of Police Leadership and Training” for the Home Secretary, which was published in April 2011 and proposed radical change to the training and development of police officers and the establishment of a new professional body for policing. As a PhD student, he has been managing a major research programme at Cambridge University into Crime Harm and a randomised control trial in Birmingham. He is also a widely published author of books, articles and papers on policing, Editor of the Oxford Journal of Policing and Associate Editor of the Springer Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is a Visiting Professor at Chester University. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in 2004 and a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2011.

Barak Ariel teaches on the Police Executive Programme at Cambridge University. Barak is also the Jerry Lee Fellow in Experimental Criminology, and is involved in several field experiments on police tactics in partnership with forces in the UK and abroad, including hotspot policing, restorative justice, use of cameras in police operations, informal crime control, and tax compliance. Mark Newton is a senior Police officer serving with the British Transport Police. His current role is that of Area Commander, delivering a policing service to the London Underground. Under his leadership, crime on the London Underground has reduced to its lowest ever recorded level. An experienced policing leader with over 30 years experience in Hertfordshire Constabulary and the British Transport Police. Mark has leadership experience in major crime, covert policing, critical incident management and stakeholder relationship. Mark was one of the British Transport Police silver commanders during the 7/7 bombings. Mark currently leads a pan London partnership between the BTP, the Metropolitan Police and Transport for London aiming at reducing theft of passenger property by 10%. Current reductions are 14%. Mark is well known at director level within most of the south east train operating company boards as well as executive level within Transport for London. Mark is currently close to completing his MBA with the University of Bedfordshire. Mark is the media lead for the British Transport Police for the 2012 London Olympics.

Lawrence W. Sherman was elected Wolfson Professor of Criminology of the University of Cambridge in 2006. As Greenfield Professor of Human Relations at the University of Pennsylvania from 1999-2007, he was appointed the first Director of Cambridge University’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and first Chair of its Department of Criminology. Prior to that, he was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and an associate professor in the University at Albany’s School of Criminal Justice. His research interests are in the fields of crime prevention, evidence-based policy, restorative justice, police practices and experimental criminology. He has conducted field experiments, for example, on finding more effective ways to reduce homicide, gun violence, domestic violence, robbery, burglary, and other crime problems, in collaboration with such agencies as the Metropolitan, Northumbria and Thames Valley Police, London’s Crown Courts, HM Prisons, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Youth Justice Board of England and Wales, and the National Probation Service. Since 1995, he has been co-directing a program of prospective longitudinal experiments in restorative justice involving some 2500 offenders and 2000 crime victims. Since 2005, he has been developing new tools for predicting murder among offenders on probation and parole in Philadelphia, as well as randomized trials of intensive services among highest-risk offenders. He has served in many professional offices. He has been president of the American Society of Criminology, the International Society of Criminology, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Academy of Experimental Criminology. He has worked on several projects of the (US) National Academy of Sciences, and as a consultant to the FBI, the (UK) Home Office and Youth Justice Board, the Swedish Ministry of Justice, the (US) National Institute of Justice, the New York City Police Department, the National Police Agency of Japan, the Korean Institute of Criminology, the Justice Ministry of Lower Saxony, and many other agencies. He is a member of the steering committee of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, and a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. In recognition of his work, he has received the American Society of Criminology's Sutherland Award, the Academy of Experimental Criminology’s McCord Award, the American Sociological Association’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Crime, Law and Deviance, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Bruce Smith Jr. Award. He has also been elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. In 2011 he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce . Professor Sherman is also the founding co-chair of the International Jury for the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. Peter Neyroud served as a police officer in Hampshire, West Mercia, Thames Valley (as Chief Constable) and the National Policing Improvement Agency (as CEO). He has been a member of the Sentencing Guidelines Council, Parole Board, National Policing Board and National Criminal Justice Board. Before retiring from the police in 2010, he completed a “fundamental review of Police Leadership and Training” for the Home Secretary, which was published in April 2011 and proposed radical change to the training and development of police officers and the establishment of a new professional body for policing. As a PhD student, he has been managing a major research programme at Cambridge University into Crime Harm and a randomised control trial in Birmingham. He is also a widely published author of books, articles and papers on policing, Editor of the Oxford Journal of Policing and Associate Editor of the Springer Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is a Visiting Professor at Chester University. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in 2004 and a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2011.

Daniel E. Ortega is Senior Research Economist at CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and associate professor at IESA Business School in Caracas. His research has broadly been in the area of microeconomics of development, with a recent focus on social experimentation and impact evaluation of literacy, education and anti-crime interventions. He is coordinator of CAF’s research program on citizen security. His research has been published in peer reviewed scholarly journals and he has been part of the team producing CAF’s annual flagship report since 2006. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland.

David Weisburd is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute of Criminology of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University and Director of its Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy. Professor Weisburd is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. He is a member of a number of prestigious international committees including the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Office of Justice Programs, the Campbell Crime and Justice Group (as Chair); and the Committee on Crime, Law and Justice of the National Research Council (NAS). He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Police Foundation in Washington DC, and chairs its Research Advisory Committee. Professor Weisburd is the recipient of the Joan McCord Award from the Academy of Experimental Criminology, and the Klachky Family Award for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science from the Hebrew University. He received the 2010 Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his research on policing and crime “hot spots.” He is author or editor of 20 books and more than 100 scientific articles. He is founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology.

Anthony Bouza came to the United States with his family at age 9. After graduating from Manual High School in Brooklyn and serving in the U.S. Army, Bouza worked briefly in sales in the garment industry in Manhattan before joining the New York City police, eventually becoming commander of police in The Bronx. In 1976 became deputy chief of the New York City Transit Police. He was brought to Minneapolis by Mayor Donald Fraser, who when newly elected in 1980, wanted an outsider to head the department following a series of scandals under his predecessor. After stepping down as chief, Anthony Bouza served as Minnesota gaming commissioner from 1989 to 1991 and briefly as director of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence in the nation's capital. Bouza holds a Bachelors degree in business administration (1965) and a Masters degree in public administration (1968) from Baruch University. Bouza is author of four books: The Police Mystique: An Insider's Look at Cops, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System (Da Capo, 1990), A Carpet of Blue: An Ex-Cop Takes a Tough Look at America's Drug Problem (Fairview, 1991), Police Unbound: Corruption, Abuse, and Heroism by the Boys in Blue (Prometheus, 2001), and The Decline and Fall of the American Empire: Corruption, Decadence, and the American Dream (Da Capo Press, 2003). He also wrote two technical books: Police Intelligence: The Operations of an Investigative Unit (AMS Press, 1976) and Police Administration (Elsevier, 1978).