SIPR, the Scottish Government and the Campbell Collaboration User Group collaborated in the development of a knowledge exchange seminar to bring Dr Cynthia Lum to Scotland.

Dr Cynthia Lum is the Deputy Director and Associate Professor of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. A former Baltimore City police officer and detective, she researches primarily in the area of policing. Her works in this area have included evaluations of policing interventions for crime prevention effectiveness, examining place-based determinates of street-level police decision-making, and understanding counterterrorism efforts by state and local law enforcement. With Dr Christopher Koper and Cody Telep (also from George Mason University), she has developed the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, a translation tool designed for police practitioners to better institutionalize and utilize research on “what works” in policing into their strategic and tactical portfolio.

Presentations by Dr Cynthia Lum

• Using research to build capacity for Evidence-Based Crime Policy
  Presentation to the Scottish Government, 25th June
• Translating and using research for strategic and tactical interventions
  Presentation to the Edinburgh Executive Session, 26th June

Additional Reading Material

• The Evidence-Based Policing Matrix Website, Centre for Evidence-Based Policy, George Mason University
  The Website includes links to videos, codings for the Matrix and tutorials
• The Evidence-Based Policing Matrix
  Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2010
• Receptivity to research in policing
  Justice, Research and Policy (in press)
• Translating police research into practice
  Ideas in American Policing, 2009

For further details, please contact the Business and Knowledge Transfer Manager, Tim Heilbronn (t.d.heilbronn@dundee.ac.uk)

(l to r) Gill Clark (Scottish Government), Cynthia Lum, Nick Fyfe (SIPR)

Cynthia Lum leads a discussion group