In considering the ethical dilemmas associated with randomized experiments, scholars
ordinarily focus on the ways in which randomization of treatments or interventions violates …

" This paper urges the police to take ownership and make use of science in the policing task.
The authors commend the police industry for embracing innovative management strategies …

Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods, Third Edition, is an accessible and
engaging text that offers balanced coverage of a full range of contemporary research …

The social benefits of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) would be enhanced by general
recognition of three problems of their interpretation and a redefinition of their mission in …

This article discusses advantages of randomized experiments and key issues raised in the
following articles. The main concern is the growth and decrease in the use of randomized …

Despite the general theoretical support for the value and use of randomized controlled
experiments in determining 'what works' in criminal justice interventions, they are …

After a useful beginning in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment as both an experimental
and analytic social science, criminology sank into two centuries of torpor. Its resurrection in …

Objectives This study expands upon Weisburd's work (1993) by reexamining the
relationship between sample size and statistical power in criminological experiments. This …

An important debate around the Evidence-Based Policing movement is determining what
constitutes “evidence” and what does not. Sherman's original rendition of evidence-based …

Objectives Despite experiments being termed the “gold standard,” criminology has been
slow to adopt experimentation as a methodology. The goal of this research note is to better …