Tamara D. Herold

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Associate Professor, Criminal Justice

Director, Crowd Management Research Council

Associate Director, Center for Crime and Justice Policy

Graduate Director

Expertise: Place-based crime prevention, Crowd dynamics and violence

Biography

Tamara D. Herold received her Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. She uses the crime science perspective to study the criminogenic impact of the design and management of places, as well as crowd dynamics that lead to violence. Her research and teaching projects involve working directly with police, private security, and stadium/venue operators. She has authored numerous scholarly articles, books, technical reports, and problem-oriented policing guides sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Herold co-developed the nationally recognized violence reduction strategy P.I.V.O.T. (Place-based Investigations of Violent Offender Territories). P.I.V.O.T. is designed to stop shootings in chronically violent urban locations. Police, city departments, and local communities work together to disrupt opportunities for violence, using a problem-oriented approach that focuses on uncovering and dismantling place-networks that permit violent activities. In 2017, P.I.V.O.T. was awarded the international Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing.

A Teaching and Learning Center Fellow at UNLV, Herold has been the recipient of the CSUN Faculty Excellence Award, the College of Urban Affairs Teaching Award, and UNLV’s Spanos Distinguished Teaching Award.

Education

Ph.D., Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati

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Tamara D. Herold In The News

New book provides roadmap for police management of public order

Scienmag

The book, Public Order Policing: A Professional’s Guide to International Theories, Case Studies, and Best Practices, was edited by researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV); the Institute for Further Education of the Bavarian Police; and the Portland Police Bureau. It published by Springer Cham in December 2023.

Police Use Science and Community Partnerships to Reduce Gun Violence

National Institute of Justice

In an NIJ podcast, LEADS Scholars from three police departments discuss how they worked with community organizations and used evidence-based policing to reduce gun violence

International researchers on shootings in Sweden: Can be brought down - but takes time

SVT Nyheter

The criminology conference The Stockholm Criminology Symposium, which is organized annually by the Crime Prevention Council, is one of the foremost of its kind.

American researcher: This is how Sweden can work against the gangs

Dagens Nyheter

Crimes will be significantly fewer if you attack the criminal logistics. This is the opinion of the American criminologist Tamara Herold, who is on a temporary visit to Stockholm.