Rate My Professor David Weisburd

David Weisburd is a Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, where he also serves as Executive Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. He earned a BA from Brandeis University and MA, MPhil, PhD from Yale University. Professor Weisburd holds the position of Walter E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem and serves as Chief Science Adviser at the National Policing Institute. His research specializations include police innovation, geography of crime with emphasis on crime at place, experimental criminology, statistics and research methods, and white collar crime. Recognized as one of the leading international researchers in crime and justice, he has made significant contributions to understanding criminal justice topics such as violent crime, policing, illicit markets, terrorism, criminal justice statistics, and social deviance.

Weisburd is the author or editor of 37 books and more than 280 scientific articles. Prominent publications include Crimes of the Middle Classes: White Collar Offenders in the Federal Courts (1991), The Criminology of Place: Street Segments and Our Understanding of the Crime Problem (2012), Place Matters: Criminology for the 21st Century (2016), Proactive Policing: Effects on Crime and Communities (2018), Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives (Revised Second Edition, 2019), and Advanced Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2021). He founded the Journal of Experimental Criminology, was General Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and presently edits the Cambridge Elements Series in Criminology. Weisburd chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Proactive Policing and the NAS Workshop on Predictive Policing, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Campbell Crime and Justice Group, the Stockholm Prize Committee, and the Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology. An elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Experimental Criminology, as well as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences, his major awards include the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2010), Klachky Family Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science (2011), Jerry Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Experimental Criminology (2014), Robert Boruch Award (2014), Sutherland Award (2014), Israel Prize (2015), Mentoring Award (2016), August Vollmer Award (2017), Robert Peel Medal (2022), and Rothschild Prize for Social Science (2022).