In memoriam: David Farrington, Founding Chair of the Campbell Crime and Justice Group

L. W. (Lawrence) Sherman, Loesal, F., Dorothy Newbury-Birch, David Weisburd

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Abstract

In late 1997, the key founder of the medical Cochrane Collaboration, Ian Chalmers, called Larry Sherman from Oxford to discuss the recent “Maryland Report” (Preventing Crime: What Works? What Doesn't? What's Promising?) submitted to the US Congress by Attorney General Janet Reno and her Assistant Attorney General, Laurie Robinson. The report had attempted to undertake a series of semi-systematic reviews in all areas for which federal funding had been made available. Sherman directed the project at the University of Maryland, where the co-authors collaborated. All of them had been informed, in part, by the systematic reviews that David Farrington had already published at Cambridge, such as his 1981 review of randomized experiments in crime and justice.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere70045
Number of pages2
JournalCampbell Systematic Reviews
Volume21
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Apr 2025

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