Registry of Randomized Criminal Justice Experiments in Sanctions, 1951-1983

Weisburd, David; Sherman, Lawrence W.; Petrosino, Anthony

doi:10.3886/icpsr09668.v2

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“…Obviously, our prior research on experiments provided a number of relevant studies to begin with (Weisburd et al 1990). This was augmented by a number of other search methods, including electronic searches of bibliographic databases (e.g., Criminal Justice Abstracts, National Criminal Justice Reference Service); a handsearch (manual visual inspection) of 29 leading social science journals; we sent out letters to hundreds of reviewers and experimental researchers; we published solicitations in association newsletters requesting leads to eligible reports (e.g., in American Society of Criminology newsletter, The Criminologist); and we chased down citations to potentially eligible trials from existing reviews and experimental literature.…”

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“…Since 1988, there have been several efforts to identify, and sometimes analyze, the results from randomized experiments relevant to the offender treatment and punishment issue (Weisburd et al 1990(Weisburd et al , 1993Petrosino 1997). To follow up on prior research, we undertook an analysis drawing on a dataset that now includes information on 300 distinct randomized field trials relevant to Bindividually focusedĉ rime reduction.…”

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The impact of program developers as evaluators on criminal recidivism: Results from meta-analyses of experimental and quasi-experimental research

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2005

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Using meta-analysis, we report on an investigation of the evaluator's influence in the treatment setting on criminal recidivism outcomes. Many evaluators and users of evaluation of social interventions worry that mixing of the roles of program developer and program evaluator may bias results reported in intervention studies in a positive direction. We first review the results of prior investigations of this issue across 50 prior meta-analyses, finding 12 that tested the impact of investigator influence in the treatment setting. Eleven of these reported that effect size increased positively, sometimes substantially so, when evaluators were influential or involved in the treatment setting. We followed this with a meta-analysis of 300 randomized field trials in individually focused crime reduction, also finding intervention studies in which evaluators who were greatly influential in the treatment setting report consistently and substantially larger effect sizes than other types of evaluators. We discuss two major views Y the Fcynical_ and Fhigh fidelity_ theories Y on why this is consistently the case, and conclude with a further agenda for research.

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The impact of program developers as evaluators on criminal recidivism: Results from meta-analyses of experimental and quasi-experimental research

Petrosino

Soydan²

2005

J Exp Criminol

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“…Enforcement swamping In addition, two existing registers of randomized controlled trials were consulted. These included (1) the BRegistry of Experiments in Criminal Sanctions, 1950Y1983 ( Weisburd et al 1990) and (2) the Campbell Collaboration Social, Psychological, Educational, and Criminological Trials Register^or C2-SPECTR now maintained by the University of Pennsylvania (Turner et al 2003).…”

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Hot spots policing and crime prevention: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

2005

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Crime scholars and practitioners have argued that police actions should be focused on highrisk crime places rather than spread thinly across the urban landscape. This review examines five randomized controlled trials of the effects of concentrating police enforcement efforts on crime hot spots. The findings of these evaluations suggest that focused police actions can prevent crime and disorder in crime hot spots. A meta-analysis of the effect sizes from the five experiments reveals a statistically significant mean effect size for hot spots policing interventions; this suggests overall reductions in citizen calls for service in the treatment hot spots relative to the control hot spots. These studies also suggest that focused police actions at specific locations do not necessarily result in crime displacement. Although these evaluations reveal that these programs work in preventing crime, additional research is needed to unravel other important policy-relevant issues such as community reaction to focused police enforcement efforts.

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“…Nevertheless, experimental designs have been used for some time across the criminal justice system to assess the benefits of planned interventions (Garner and Visher 2003;Farrington 2003;Weisburd et al 1990). One area within the criminal justice system where they have been employed with some frequency is in the evaluation of domestic violence batterer intervention programs (BIPs); between 1990 and 2005, there have been five reported experiments that tested such programs against no-program control conditions.…”

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The impact of length of domestic violence treatment on the patterns of subsequent intimate partner violence

2010

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Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have been used for several decades in criminal justice research to assess the benefits of interventions. RCTs have been employed with some frequency in evaluating batterer intervention programs (BIPs); between 1990 and 2005, there were five RCTs of BIPs. While most of these studies failed to find positive findings, one conducted in Brooklyn, New York, appeared to detect a positive effect of a BIP on domestic violence re-offending. Subsequent inspection of the data, however, revealed several complicating factors that led us to reanalyze these data. Our reanalysis focused on whether the intervention temporarily suppresses abusive behavior during the time that offenders are under court control, or whether the program produces lasting changes in offender behavior. With improved data analysis techniques, additional outcome data, and several alternative analytical models, we arrive at an alternative conclusion than is reported in the original publication. While we still find evidence of a reduction in the number of new incidents across a 15-month period due to treatment assignment, we now find that the effect of attending treatment does not likely persist beyond the treatment period once the treatment measure is specified as a time-dependent parameter rather than a fixed effect. This outcome is more consistent with a suppression/supervision explanation rather than a therapeutic outcome explanation. The implications of these results are discussed.

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Registry of Randomized Criminal Justice Experiments in Sanctions, 1951-1983

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The impact of program developers as evaluators on criminal recidivism: Results from meta-analyses of experimental and quasi-experimental research

The impact of program developers as evaluators on criminal recidivism: Results from meta-analyses of experimental and quasi-experimental research

Hot spots policing and crime prevention: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

The impact of length of domestic violence treatment on the patterns of subsequent intimate partner violence

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