presented at 0940 on Tuesday 11th July 2017, at this Conference: http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/conferences/ebp/2017/
Presented at 9.00am on Tuesday 11th July, at this Conference: http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/conferences/ebp/2017/
From Criminology 10th International Conference on Evidence Based Policing.
On 17 June 2014 Sue Hall (Chief Executive, West Yorkshire Probation Trust and Chair, Probation Chiefs Association) delivered the 17th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture entitled 'Why Probation Matters'. This is the seventeenth of a series of annual memorial lectures given in the spirit of Bill McWilliams’s work. The Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture is supported by the Clarke Hall Fund, the Barrow Cadbury Trust and the late Hugh Sanders OBE. For more information about the lecture, please con...
On Tuesday 27th June 2017, the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge held the 20th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture. The event took the format of an initial lecture by Fergus McNeill (Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of Glasgow), entitled 'Helping, Holding and Hurting: A Dialogue about Penal Supervision'. Following this, there were short presentations by a former supervisee, a probation officer and a probation manager. There was then a panel discussio...
The 20th Annual Nigel Walker Lecture was held on 15 June 2017 at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Professor Candace Kruttschnitt (University of Toronto) spoke on the topic: "Challenging a Gender Response Approach to Female Offending: Does the Empirical Research Bear Out this Perspective?" Candace Kruttschnitt is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law ...
On Monday 20th June 2016, the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge held the 19th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture. The lecture was delivered by Vivian Geiran, Director of the Irish Probation Service. Mr Geiran spoke on the topic 'Penal Reform and Probation in Europe: Positive Change of Direction, 'Nudges to the Rudder' or 'Steady as She Goes'?'. The Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture is generously supported by the Probation Chiefs' Association, the Clarke Hall Fund, the B...
On 23 June 2015 Anne Worrall, Professor Emerita of Criminology, Keele University delivered the 18th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture entitled 'Grace under Pressure: The Role of Courage in the Future of Probation Work'. This is the eighteenth of a series of annual memorial lectures given in the spirit of Bill McWilliams’s work. The Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture is supported by the Clarke Hall Fund, the Barrow Cadbury Trust and the late Hugh Sanders OBE. For more information about the le...
On Monday 27th April 2015, at 3.30-4.45pm in The Hall at King's College, Cambridge, there will be an opportunity to celebrate the life and work of Nigel Walker through informal presentations.
Institute of Criminology invites you to the 18th Annual Nigel Walker Lecture Drug Policy and the Public Good: Legalization and its Limits, Professor Peter Reuter on Monday 27th April, 2015 at 5.30pm in the Keynes Lecture Theatre, King’s College FILMING BY KIND PERMISSION OF THE PROVOST AND SCHOLARS OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
Professor Stephen Reicher's talk Milgrim, From the Institute of Criminology Public Seminar Series
2014 Debate at Criminology
On Tuesday 25th June 2013, the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge held the 16th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture. The lecture was delivered by Professor Paul Senior, Director of the Hallam Centre for Community Justice in Sheffield. Professor Senior spoke on the topic "Privatising Probation: The Death Knell of a Much-Cherished Public Service?". The Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture is generously supported by the Probation Chiefs' Association, the Clarke Hall Fund, the B...
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.
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.
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). 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 Poli...
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). 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 Cambrid...
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). 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...
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). 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 a...
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). 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 Geor...
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). Bernard Hogan-Howe was born in Sheffield. He has an MA in Law from Oxford University, a diploma in Applied Criminology and was awarded an MBA in Business Administration from Sheffield University. He has been awarded the Queen’s Police Medal. Af...
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). Sir Peter Fahy has been Chief Constable of Greater Manchester since September 2008. He previously served in four other forces and was Chief Constable of Cheshire for five years. He holds national responsibility within the Association of Chief P...
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). Nick Gargan joined the NPIA in January 2010, having previously served as Assistant Chief Constable in Thames Valley Police, responsible for crime and criminal justice and, before that, local policing. At the NPIA he was initially Chief Operatin...
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). 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 ...
A presentation by Professor Lawrence Sherman, Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology and Director, Police Executive Programme. Repeated experiments show that focused policing reduces crime. Yet research shows that prison increases offenders’ crime rates, especially after they are sent to prison for the first time. New forecasting tools allow criminologists to predict the few people who are too dangerous to divert from prosecution, and the ...
Eminent criminologist Prof Lawrence Sherman has just set up a long term experiment with the police, to scientifically study crime in Manchester and come up with some solutions. This experiment will study crime hot spots and try out a technique Prof Sherman has developed in USA to lessen crime throughout the city by changing policing at these locations. This is the first time such a systematic experiment on city crime has been mounted in the UK.
