Dr Charlotte Gill is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University, Virginia and holds degrees in Criminology and Law from the Universities of Pennsylvania and Cambridge. Her primary research interests are community-based crime prevention and place-based approaches, particularly with juveniles and youth; community policing; program evaluation, including randomized controlled trials; and research synthesis. In 2012, she received the Academy of Experimental Criminology's Young Experimental Scholar Award. Dr Gill's current research involves pilot studies of social and community building interventions at hot spots. She is also the co-editor of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group.