The Importance of Randomized Field Trials

By Robert F. Boruch, B. Snyder, D. DeMoya. 2000

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Subfields: Education, Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability

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Justifying the use of non-experimental methods and disqualifying the use of randomized controlled trials: challenging folklore in evaluation research in crime and justice (2010, background): “difficulties of meeting the assumptions of non-experimental studies, many evaluation statisticians have taken the position that only randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can provide valid conclusions regarding the impacts of treatments and programs ( Boruch et al. 2000; Campbell and Boruch 1975; Coo”
Why do evaluation researchers in crime and justice choose non-experimental methods? (2005, background): “Some have also justified the importance of experimental over non-experimental methods on other grounds, including that it is unethical to not use randomized experiments to discover whether a program is effective or harmful (Boruch 1976; McCord 2003; Weisburd 2003) or that experimentation benefits po”
Evaluating batterer counseling programs: A difficult task showing some effects and implications (2004, background): “As a special issue of Crime and Delinquency argues, the experimental evaluation of batterer programs should get the most weight, since their designs are the most rigorously scientific (Boruch et al., 2000; Dunford, 2000a).”
What Guides Evaluation? A Study of How Evaluation Practice Maps onto Evaluation Theory (2003, methodology): “The method dimension includes Robert Boruch and Elliot Eisner; Boruch (see Boruch, Snyder, and DeMoya, 2000) is on the quantitative and Eisner (see Eisner, 1985) on the qualitative end of this continuum.”
The Effectiveness of Counter-Terrorism Strategies (2006, methodology): “To assess the evidence on the effectiveness of counter-terrorism measures, the Campbell Collaboration3 (see Boruch et al., 2000; Farrington and Petrosino, 2001), through its Crime and Justice Coordinating Group,4 approved our protocol to conduct a systematic review of research related to…”
Success for All: First-Year Results From the National Randomized Field Trial (2005, background): “Indeed, the number of experiments conducted to inform other types of social policy and other disciplines within the social sciences, such as psychology and criminology, is increasing at a much faster rate than in education (Boruch et al., 2002).”
Instrumental variables methods in experimental criminological research: what, why and how (2006, unknown): “In fact, of the disciplines tracked in a survey of social science research methods by Boruch et al. (2002), Criminology is the only one to show a marked increase in the use of randomized trials since the mid-sixties. Journal of Experimental Criminology (2006) 2: 23–44 # Springer 2006”