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SUMMARY:Can Research Prevent Crime? - Professor Lawrence Sherman\, Directo
 r\, Institute of Criminology\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Dr Nigel Bennee
DESCRIPTION:The contributions of research to increased longevity are well-
 known and widely accepted\; the role of research in preventing crime is eq
 ually interesting\, but generally unknown. \n\nThis lecture traces the ben
 efits of two centuries of research on crime\, concentrating on the last th
 ree decades—when measures of crime have dropped substantially in most ad
 vanced economies. \n\nResearch has led governments to do better at three k
 ey tasks: targeting\, testing\, and tracking taxpayers’ investments in p
 reventing crime. \n\nTARGETING resources better has been a direct result o
 f epidemiological research specifying the victims\, places\, social networ
 ks and situations featuring the greatest concentrations of harm from crime
 .\n\nTESTING resources to specify what works—and what doesn’t—to pre
 vent crime has seen a rapid growth of randomized controlled trials of vari
 ous practices and innovations in social services\, policing\, sentencing a
 nd corrections. \n\nTRACKING resources to guide them more precisely has de
 veloped from research showing where discredited criminogenic practices are
  still being used\, and where effective practices are not being used to th
 e extent possible.   \nThe lecture presents prominent examples of all thre
 e ways in which research has helped to prevent crime. It concludes by offe
 ring cautions on the cultural challenges of antipathy to research about a 
 highly emotional topic\, and the generally precarious fate of science-base
 d policy in any democracy. 
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Churchill College\, Storey's Way\, Camb
 ridge
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