Herman Goldstein (December 8, 1931 – January 24, 2020) was an American criminologist and legal scholar known for developing the

problem-oriented policing Problem-oriented policing (POP), coined by University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Herman Goldstein, is a policing strategy that involves the identification and analysis of specific crime and disorder problems, in order to develop effective r ...

model. He was Professor at the

University of Wisconsin Law School The University of Wisconsin Law School is the Law school in the United States, law school of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Public university, public research university in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded in 1868, the school is guided by a ...

, where he began teaching in 1964. He previously worked as an assistant to the then-superintendent of the

Chicago Police Department The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is the primary law enforcement agency of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Chicago City Council. It is the second-largest Law enforcement in the United States#Local, ...

O.W. Wilson Orlando Winfield Wilson (May 15, 1900 – October 18, 1972), also known as O. W. Wilson, was an American police officer, later becoming a leader in policing along with authoring several books on policing. Wilson served as Superintendent of the C ...

. In 2018, he was awarded the

Stockholm Prize in Criminology The Stockholm Prize in Criminology is an international prize in the field of criminology, established under the aegis of the Swedish Ministry of Justice. It has a permanent endowment in the trust of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology Foundation. ...

in honor of his research on

policing The police are a constituted body of people empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself. This commonly includes ensuring the safety, health, and possessions of citizen ...

. Goldstein died in January 2020 at the age of 88. His funeral took place at Beth Israel Center in Madison, WI.

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* 1931 births 2020 deaths Writers from New London, Connecticut 20th-century American lawyers American criminologists American legal scholars American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Jewish American academics University of Wisconsin Law School faculty Winners of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology University of Pennsylvania alumni Wisconsin lawyers 21st-century American Jews {{Criminologist-stub