This year’s Jerry Lee lecture was given by Professor Cynthia Lum. Photo: Brå
Previous years Jerry Lee lectures
• 2026: Cynthia Lum (George Mason University) — Field research and the "special sauce" for institutionalizing evidence-based policing.
• 2025: Lawrence Sherman & Jerzy Sarnecki (University of Cambridge / Stockholm University) — Delivered a special joint 20th-anniversary retrospective on the progress of the Stockholm Prize.
• 2024: Alex R. Piquero (University of Miami) — But first there was citrus fruit, a naval ship, and scurvy: Successes and challenges using scientific research to inform criminal justice policy decisions.
• 2023: Jerry Ratcliffe (Temple University) — Get in a knife fight and other considerations for experimental criminologists.
• 2022: Peter Neyroud (University of Cambridge) — Policing and the Pandemic: a global “experiment” in policing a crisis: what have we learnt about policing, how did we learn it and what does it tell us about post-pandemic policing?
• 2021: Jens Ludwig (University of Chicago) — The behavioral science approach to gun violence prevention.
• 2019: Keith Humphreys (Stanford University) — A radical drug policy change to reduce crime, arrests, and incarceration.
• 2018: Malcolm Sparrow (Harvard University) — Problem-oriented policing: Matching the science to the art.
• 2017: Pamela Lattimore (RTI International) — Replicating HOPE and confirming the null: Results from the HOPE DFE four-site randomized control trial.
• 2016: John Macdonald (University of Pennsylvania) — Changing places: Using science to design Safer Cities.
• 2015: Lorraine Mazerolle (University of Queensland) — The ripple effects of police experimentation: How one trial can change the lives of many.
• 2014: Grant Duwe (Minnesota Department of Corrections) — Why randomized controlled trials will be more important than ever in corrections.
• 2013: Daniel Ortega (IESA Business School, Venezuela) — Police training and accountability, lessons from social experiments in Latin America.
