[7] At George Mason University, Weisburd was founder of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and is now its Executive Director.
Weisburd's research on place-based criminology has demonstrated the importance of focusing on the role geographic micro-places, such as street segments, play in explaining crime.
Importantly, this research also showed that these crime concentrations remained stable across time and place over the 16-year study period.
[14][15][16] Weisburd has also replicated these findings in Tel Aviv, Israel, where almost the same levels of concentration were found as in his Seattle Study.
[18] Weisburd's research has also repeatedly demonstrated the importance of these findings for crime prevention policy, particularly in the area of policing.
[23] Weisburd's recent work has examined the impact of different types of police tactics in crime hot spots on people frequenting these targeted areas.
[25] That study also found that citizens will be less likely to see the procedural justice-trained officers as using too much force, or harassing people on the street.
Related to this work, Weisburd has also advanced the importance of randomized controlled trials in evaluating crime and justice policies and programs.
These include a visiting professorship appointment at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffiths University in Brisbane, Australia in 2004, visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in 2007, and honorary professor at the Zehjiang Police College in Hangzhou, China in 2011.
Most recently, he was awarded the Rothschild Prize in Social Science from the Yad Hanadiv Foundation,[32] the Sir Robert Peel Award from the Cambridge Institute of Criminology,[33] and the Beck Family Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Research[34] from George Mason University, all in 2022.