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The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy

The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy

Author: Brandon C. Welsh; Steven N. Zane; Daniel P. Mears
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197618110
Published In: February 2024
Format: Hardback
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The need for and the threats to improved public policy are equally acute. Crime policy agenda continues to be driven by anecdotal evidence and political ideology, resulting in a patchwork of programs, policies, and practices. All-too-frequently, the need for them is uncertain, they rest on unclear theoretical foundations, they are implemented poorly, and their effectiveness in preventing or controlling crime, or furthering justice, is unknown. Putting research evidence at center-stage in political and policy decisions can go a long way to addressing this state of affairs by ensuring that the best available data informs decisions that affect the public good.

Situated within this wider context, The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy showcases much of what is right with evidence-based crime and justice policy as well as confronts the challenges that it faces today and looking forward. Bringing together leading scholars and researchers in criminology, criminal justice, sociology, psychology, education, health, and the law, this handbook promotes new and productive ways to think about evidence-based policy, shows how research can contribute to and guide evidence-based policy in juvenile justice, criminal justice, and alternatives to system responses, and identifies strategies that can increase reliance on evidence-based policy. It is the most authoritative and scholarly source on research and experience on evidence-based policy as it applies to crime and justice in the United States and across the Western world.

1. Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy

Brandon C. Welsh, Steven N. Zane, and Daniel P. Mears

PART I. CONCEPTS, METHODS, AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES

2. Evaluating Research and Assessing Research Evidence

Brandon C. Welsh and Daniel P. Mears

3. Translational Criminology and Evidence-Based Policy and Practice

Cody W. Telep

4. Implementation Science for Evidence-Based Policy

Dean L. Fixsen, Melissa Van Dyke, and Karen A. Blase

5. Toward System-Level Change, Population Impacts, and Equity

Holly S. Schindler

PART II: JUVENILE JUSTICE

6. Advancing the Evidence-Based Era: 25 Years of Lessons Learned in Washington State's Juvenile Justice System

Elizabeth K. Drake and Lauren Knoth-Peterson

7. Systems of Change: The Pennsylvania Model

Shawn Peck, Janet A. Welsh, Kristopher T. Glunt, and Roger Spaw

8. Diversion: What Do We Know?

Roger Smith

9. Evidence-Based Innovations in Juvenile Probation

David L. Myers and Kelly Orts

10. Using Evidence-Based Practices to Improve Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts

Christopher J. Sullivan, Vitor Goncalves, and Nicole McKenna

11. Evidence-Oriented Youth Justice

Jeffrey A. Butts, John K. Roman, and Katheryne Pugliese

PART III: CRIMINAL JUSTICE

12. Legitimacy and Evidence-Based Policy

Justice Tankebe and Anthony Bottoms

13. Evidence-Based Policing

Cynthia Lum and Christopher S. Koper

14. CCTV Video Surveillance and Crime Control: The Current Evidence and Important Next Steps

Eric L. Piza

15. Rehabilitation for Enduring Change: Toward Evidence-Based Corrections

Michael Rocque

16. Incarceration-Based Drug Treatment

Ojmarrh Mitchell

17. Making Prisoner Reentry Evidence-Based

Helen Kosc and David S. Kirk

18. Evidence-Based Policy for Diverse Criminal Justice Populations

Kaelyn Sanders, Jennifer Cobbina-Dungy, and Henrika McCoy

PART IV: ALTERNATIVES TO SYSTEM RESPONSES

19. Early Prevention as an Alternative to Imprisonment: The Research Evidence on Monetary Costs and Benefits

Brandon C. Welsh, Heather Paterson, and David P. Farrington

20. Evidence-Based Intervention Programs Targeting Antisocial Children and Youth in Norway: Parent Management Training, the Oregon Model (PMTO)

Terje Ogden, Elisabeth Askeland, and Kristine Amlund-Hagen

21. Systems of Change: Communities That Care

Abigail A. Fagan

22. Reducing School Crime and Student Misbehavior: An Evidence-Based Analysis

Allison Ann Payne

23. Evidence-Based Strategies for Preventing Urban Youth Violence

Katherine M. Ross, Colleen S. Walsh, Angela G. Angulo, Carine E. Leslie, and

Patrick H. Tolan

24. A Place Management Approach to Promote Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

Tamara D. Herold

25. Using Research to Inform Services for Victims of Crime

Jillian Turanovic, Julie L. Kuper, and Mackenzie Masters

PART V: PROMOTING GREATER USE OF EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY

26. Social Inequality and Evidence-Based Policy: An Agenda for Change

Nancy Rodriguez

27. Applying What We Know and Building an Evidence Base: Reducing Disproportionate Minority Contact

Steven N. Zane

28. Applying What We Know and Building an Evidence Base: Reducing Gun Violence

John J. Donohue

29. Mass Evidence-Based Policy as an Alternative to Mass Incarceration

Daniel P. Mears and Joshua C. Cochran

30. “Big Data” and Evidence-Based Policy and Practice: The Advantages, Challenges, and Long-Term Potential of Naturally Occurring Data

Daniel T. O'Brien

31. Imposed Use: A New Route to Evidence-Based Policy

Steven N. Zane

32. The Role of Policymakers, Criminal Justice Administrators and Practitioners, and Citizens in Creating, Evaluating, and Using Evidence-Based Policy

Daniel P. Mears and Natasha A. Frost