In the framework of the Master's degree joint
program between the PPA and the University of Maryland, USA on
Criminal Justice, from November 30th – December 4th, 2015,
the University of Maryland appointed Prof. Lawrence Sherman to teach the
special subject on Police Science at the PPA.
According to the
curriculum, Prof. Lawrence Sherman would exchange about Police Science based on
the evidence; the world's research on the work of the police; the use of
research results as a basis to formulate policies on crime prevention and crime
investigation as well as reduction of harm to society.
Lieutenant
General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem – President of the PPA
presented a souvenir
gift to Prof. Lawrence Sherman
During the time of Prof.
Lawrence Sherman teaching at the PPA, Lieutenant-General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan
Yem - President of the PPA received courtly the Professor. At the meeting, the
President of the PPA welcomed the Professor to Vietnam, praised his contribution
to the joint
program between the PPA and the University of Maryland, USA.
The President highly appreciated the Professor’s research in the field of
police science basing on evidence. He also expressed his desire to keep
welcoming Professor to teach in the next course at the PPA.
Prof.
Lawrence Sherman took a photograph with the students
Prof. Lawrence Sherman would
like to thank the PPA’s President; and shared the information relating to his
teaching at the University of Maryland, USA, and the work as also the Director of both the Jerry
Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology and Chair of the Cambridge Police
Executive Programme. Currently, he and his colleagues are developing
the police training videos basing on evidence for the police force. These series
of videos have been used as model for local police of the United Kingdom,
Australia and Spain. The Professor desired to support this program for the PPA
in the future.
The President of the PPA expressed
his thank and pleased to to be able to cooperate with the Professor about this
program in the near future.
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Lawrence W. Sherman was elected Wolfson
Professor of Criminology of the University of Cambridge in 2006. The Wolfson
Professor of Criminology is a senior professorship at the University of
Cambridge. The position was established in 1960 by a benefaction by the
Wolfson Foundation and is the first of its kind in Britain. Recently,
American criminologist Lawrence W. Sherman became the fourth Wolfson
Professor.
As Greenfield Professor of Human
Relations at the University of Pennsylvania from 1999-2007, he was appointed
the first Director of the the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology and
first Chair of the Cambridge Police Executive Programme. Before, 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.
He has served in many professional organizations.
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.
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Nguyen Quang Nghi (B10D39)