David Weisburd

David L. Weisburd, born in 1954, is an Israeli-American criminologist whose research examines the relationship between crime and geographic place, policing strategy, and white-collar crime. He is Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, where he founded and directs the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Criminology. He received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2010 and the Israel Prize in Social Work and Criminological Research in 2015, and founded and edited the Journal of Experimental Criminology.