Lawrence W. Sherman (born Schenectady, New York October 25, 1949) is an experimental criminologist and police educator who is the founder of "evidence-based policing."
 Currently the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing and Editor-in-Chief of the Centre's Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing, he is also Wolfson Professor of Criminology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and Chair of the Cambridge Police Executive Programme.
 A Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice in College Park, he is also founding director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology.
 Sherman's use of randomized controlled experiments to study deterrence and crime prevention has led him to examine such wide-ranging issues as domestic violence, police crackdowns and saturation patrol, gun violence and crime, crack houses, and reintegrative shaming.
 He has collaborated with over 30 police and justice agencies around the world.
 Lawrence Sherman is best known in science as an experimental criminologist, and to Ángel Cabrera, President of George Mason University, as the "father" of evidence-based policing.
 In 2016 he was appointed to a Swedish knighthood by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden.
David L. Weisburd (born 1954), is an Israeli/American criminologist who is well known for his research on crime and place, policing and white collar crime.
 Weisburd was the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and was recently awarded the Israel Prize in Social Work and Criminological Research, considered the state's highest honor.
 Weisburd holds joint tenured appointments as §ciety at George Mason University.
 and Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice in the Institute of Criminology of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law, At George Mason University Weisburd was founder of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and is now its executive director.
 Weisburd also serves as a senior fellow at the Police Foundation in Washington, D.C., and chair of its Research Advisory Committee.
 Weisburd was the founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and is now the general editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Thomas G. Blomberg is an American criminologist.
 an expert in criminology research and public policy; delinquency, education and crime desistance; penology and social control; and victim services and focuses in examining the relationship between educational achievement among incarcerated youthful offenders and successful community reintegration, currently the Dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology at Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
This is a list of notable social scientists that work in the field of criminology and criminal justice.
 Although some government agencies hire individuals with the title "Criminologist," nominally a criminologist has a Ph.D. in Criminology or Criminal Justice.
 Since Criminology is an interdisciplinary field, individuals who have a doctorate typically in economics, history, political science, philosophy, and sociology, but who publish scholarly articles and books in the field of criminology and criminal justice are also considered criminologists.
 Although [forensic scientists] may have an understanding of criminology and criminal justice, they are not by definition criminologists.
Charles Franklin Wellford is an American criminologist, emeritus professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland–College Park.
 He previously served as the Department's chair.
 In 1996, the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice there established the Charles Wellford Fellowship in his honor.
 Since 1995, he has been the chair of the University of Maryland's Athletic Council.
 He was the president of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) during 1995-96.
Daniel Preston Mears (born April 10, 1966) is an American criminologist and the Mark C. Stafford Professor of Criminology at the Florida State University College of Criminology & Criminal Justice.
 A 2011 ranking of American criminologists ranked Mears as the second most influential in terms of scholarly contributions.
 His research interests include the popularity of supermax prisons and their effects on recidivism, as well as the relationship between immigration and crime.
 He is the author of "American Criminal Justice Policy: An Evaluation Approach to Increasing Accountability and Effectiveness" (2010, Cambridge University Press), "Prisoner Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration" (2015, Sage Publications), and "Out-of-Control Criminal Justice: The Systems Improvement Solution for More Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency" (2017, Cambridge University Press).
The University of Maryland, College Park (often referred to as the University of Maryland, Maryland, UM, UMD, UMCP, or College Park) is a public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, approximately 4 mi from the northeast border of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the university is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland.
 With a fall 2010 enrollment of more than 37,000 students, over 100 undergraduate majors, and 120 graduate programs, Maryland is the largest university in the state and the largest in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
 It is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes in athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
John Paul Wright is an American criminologist known for his work in biosocial criminology.
 He is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati College of Education Criminal Justice and Human Services.
 He is also the director of the graduate program in criminal justice there.
 Among the students whose Ph.D. theses he has overseen is Kevin Beaver, a professor at Florida State University.
 He previously taught at East Tennessee State University for five years (1995-2000), and was granted tenure there in 2000.
John H. Laub (born 1953) is an American criminologist and Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Nicole Leeper Piquero is an American criminologist and the Robert E. Holmes Jr.
 Professor of Criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas).
 She has been the associate provost for faculty development and program review there since 2015, and has held the position of Robert E. Holmes Jr. tenured professor there since 2016.
 A 2013 article in the "Journal of Criminal Justice Education" ranked her as one of the top five female academics publishing in respected criminology and criminal justice journals.

Question: The place where John Laub is an American criminologist and Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at was founded in what year?
Answer: 1856