Professor
George Mason University, United States
Dr. Cynthia Lum is University Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and director of George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. She is a leading authority on evidence-based policing, an approach that advocates that research, evaluation, and scientific processes should have “a seat at the table” in law enforcement policymaking and practice. She has studied and written extensively about patrol operations and police crime prevention activities, police technology, investigations and detective work, and evidence-based crime policy. Additionally, she has developed numerous tools and strategies to translate and institutionalize research into everyday law enforcement operations. Professor Lum is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and appointed member of the Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ) for the National Academies of Sciences (NAS). She and Christopher Koper are the Chief Editors of the ASC's flagship policy journal, Criminology & Public Policy.
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