The 2010 Stockholm Prize in Criminology has been awarded to Springer author and editor David L. Weisburd for a series of experiments showing that intensified police patrol at high crime "hot spots" does not merely push crime around. The Prize will be presented to Professor Weisburd at the Stockholm City Hall on June 15, 2010, during the annual Stockholm Criminology Symposium.
Weisburd is a leader among the growing number of criminologists whose research shows that reducing crime can succeed without restricting public liberty that could result from overly extensive or unnecessary police activities. His research encompasses a wide range of criminological questions, from the causes of Jewish settler violence in Israel to the punishment of white collar crime in the US.
Professor Weisburd is the founder and editor of Springer's Journal of Experimental Criminology. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Quantitative Criminology, Putting Crime in its Place, The Criminology of White-Collar Crime, as well as To Protect and To Serve. Weisburd is co-author of the textbook Statistics in Criminal Justice. He has published more than seventy scientific articles that cover a wide range of criminal justice research topics, including crime at place, violent crime, white collar crime, policing, illicit markets, criminal justice statistics and social deviance.
David L. Weisburd is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University Institute of Criminology in Jerusalem, Israel, and Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University in Virginia, USA. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University.
The Stockholm Prize in Criminology was established under the aegis of the Swedish Ministry of Justice. The prize, first presented in 2006, is awarded for outstanding achievements in criminological research or for the application of research results by practitioners for the reduction of crime and the advancement of human rights. The prize is awarded to one recipient annually, with the possibility of the prize being shared among co-recipients. The prize amounts to at least 1,000,000 SEK (approximately 90,500 EUR or 126,000 USD).
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