Professor David Weisburd is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute of Criminology of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law, and Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Director of the Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy at George Mason University. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Police Foundation in Washington DC, and Chair of its Research Advisory Committee.
Professor Weisburd is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology (and the 2008 recipient of the AEC's Joan McCord Award for contributions to experimental criminology). He is Co-Chair of the steering committee of the Campbell Crime and Justice Group, a member of the National Research Council Committee on
Crime Law and Justice, a member of the Science Advisory Board of the Office of Justice Programs, and a member of the Harvard/NIJ Executive Session on Policing. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Professor Weisburd is author or editor of twenty books and more than one hundred scientific articles that cover a wide range of criminal justice research topics,
including crime at place, violent crime, white collar crime, policing, illicit markets, criminal justice statistics and social deviance. Professor Weisburd received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2010, and the Klachky Family Prize for Advances on the Frontiers of Science in 2011.
Professor Weisburd is editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology.