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"An evidence-based approach to crime and justice policy can go a long way toward ensuring that the best available research is considered in decisions that bear on the public good. However, the term "evidence-based" is characterized by a great deal of rhetoric. Indeed, there remains a...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2024] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice
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"An evidence-based approach to crime and justice policy can go a long way toward ensuring that the best available research is considered in decisions that bear on the public good. However, the term "evidence-based" is characterized by a great deal of rhetoric. Indeed, there remains a marked disjuncture between calls for "evidence-based" policy and an understanding of what it means for policy to be "evidence-based." The calls for evidence-based policy nonetheless provide a powerful foundation for propelling a movement toward bringing about rational, cost-effective, and humane policies for the betterment of society. This handbook showcases the state of research on evidence-based crime and justice policy and the challenges that impede its creation and use. The volume has three core objectives: to promote new and productive ways to think about evidence-based policy; to demonstrate how research can contribute to and guide evidence-based policy in juvenile justice, criminal justice, and alternatives to system responses; and to identify strategies that can increase reliance on evidence-based policy. To meet these objectives, each chapter is guided by several central questions: What do we know about evidence-based policy and practice in crime and justice? How can we improve knowledge of evidence-based policy and practice? How can we promote more use of evidence-based policy and practice? Taken as a whole, the volume emphasizes the critical need for policies that are grounded in high-quality research, that address critical research gaps, and that fully acknowledge the limitations of what extant research can do to inform policy decisions"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 689 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780197618110 0197618111 |
| Index Number: | BC171 |
| CLC: | D915.13-62 |
| Call Number: | D915.13-62/O984 |
| Contents: |
Evidence-based crime and justice policy / Concepts, methods, and critical perspectives. Evaluating research and assessing research evidence / Translational criminology and evidence-based policy and practice / Implementation science for evidence-based policy / Toward system-level change, population impacts, and equity / Juvenile justice. Advancing the evidence-based era : twenty-five years of lessons learned in Washington state's juvenile justice system / Systems of change : the Pennsylvania model / Diversion : what do we know? / Evidence-based innovations in juvenile probation / Using evidence-based practices to improved juvenile drug treatment courts / Evidence-oriented youth justice / Criminal justice. Legitimacy and evidence-based policy / Evidence-based policing / CCTV video surveillance and crime control : the current evidence and important next steps / Rehabilitation for enduring change : toward evidence-based corrections / Incarceration-based drug treatment / Making prisoner re-entry evidence-based / Evidence-based policy for diverse criminal justice populations / Alternatives to system responses. Early prevention as an alternative to imprisonment : the research evidence on monetary costs and benefits / Evidence-based intervention programs targeting antisocial children and youth in Norway : parent management training--Oregon model (PMTO) / Systems of change : communities that care / Reducing school crime and student misbehavior : an evidence-based analysis / Evidence-based strategies for preventing urban youth violence / A place management approach to promote evidence-based crime prevention / Using research to inform services for victims of crime / Promoting greater use of evidence-based policy. Social inequality and evidence-based policy : an agenda for change / Applying what we know and building an evidence base : reducing disproportionate minority contact / Applying what we know and building an evidence-base : reducing gun violence / Mass evidence-based policy as an alternative to mass incarceration / "Big data" and evidence-baseed policy and practice : the advantages, challenges, and long-term potential of naturally occurring data / Imposed use : a new route to evidence-based policy / The role of policymakers, criminal justice administrators and practitioners, and citizens in creating, evaluating, and using evidence-based policy / |