Evidence-Based Policing Matrix (Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy)

INCLUSION CRITERIA AND METHODS KEY

REALMS OF EFFECTIVENESS

USING THE MATRIX

THE MATRIX DIVIDED
BY RIGOR

THE CREATORS

	Dr. Cynthia Lum is the Director and Associate Professor of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. 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, understanding the relationship between technology and policing, and assessing airport security efforts by the TSA. With Dr. Christopher Koper and Cody Telep (both of 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. Dr. Lum is also the co-Director of CEBCP's Research Program on Evidence-Based Policing. (Curriculum Vitae)
	Dr. Christopher Koper is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. He was formerly the Director of Research for the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a policing membership and research organization based in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland and has over 20 years of experiencing conducting criminological research at PERF, the University of Pennsylvania, the Urban Institute, the RAND Corporation, the Police Foundation, and other organizations, where he has written and published extensively on issues related to firearms, policing, federal crime prevention efforts, research methods, juvenile delinquency, and other topics. Dr. Koper has served as a lead or senior-level investigator for numerous projects funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, including Congressionally-mandated assessments of the 1994 federal assault weapons ban and the federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program. He is also the co-creator of the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, a tool used by organizations including the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance and the National Policing Improvement Agency of the United Kingdom for visualizing research results on police effectiveness and translating those results for practitioners and policymakers. Dr. Koper is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University and a former scholar-in-residence of the Firearm and Injury Center at Penn (a center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System). (Curriculum Vitae)
	Cody W. Telep is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. He was a Presidential Fellow from 2008-2011. He received an MA from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland in 2008. His research interests include innovations in policing, police education, and evidence-based policy. His recent work includes a Campbell Collaboration systematic review on the effectiveness of problem-oriented policing and a study of the impact of police officer education on abuse of authority attitudes. (Curriculum Vitae)
	We welcome your questions, comments, or concerns with the Matrix. Please feel free to contact us at cebcp@gmu.edu with your inquiry.

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