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PREDICTING CRIME: Some Collected Works of 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 Problem- Solving 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. Click Here

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. Click Here

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. Click Here

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