Randomized experiments in criminology: What have we learned in the last two decades?

By David P. Farrington, Brandon C. Welsh. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Instrumental variables methods in experimental criminological research: what, why and how (2006, unknown): “Gartin (1995) discusses a number of criminological examples with compliance problems, and non-compliance has long been recognized as a feature of randomized medical trials (see e.”
TESTING ENFORCEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE FIELD: THREAT, MORAL APPEAL AND SOCIAL INFORMATION (2013, background): “In addition, the set of possible responses to our treatments is well-defined and leaves less scope for the interpretation of For an overview of randomized experiments in the criminology literature, see the meta-study by Farrington and Welsh (2006). In a similar setup, Schwartz and Orleans (1967) fou”
Conduct Disorder, Aggression and Delinquency (2009, background): “…mentioned earlier, I will focus here espe cially on results obtained in randomized experi ments with reasonably large samples, since the effect of any intervention on antisocial behav ior can be demonstrated most convincingly in such experiments (Farrington, 1983; Farrington & Welsh, 2005).”
An Experimental Evaluation of the Impact of Intensive Supervision on the Recidivism of High-Risk Probationers (2017, result): “These general findings have been observed in numerous other studies (Farrington & Welsh, 2005; Gendreau, Goggin, Cullin, & Andrews, 2000; Taxman, 2002).”
Randomized Controlled Field Trials of Predictive Policing (2015, unknown): “[12] David P Farrington and Brandon C Welsh.”
Formal System Processing of Juveniles: Effects on Delinquency: A Systematic Review (2010, background): “…Collaboration’s Schizophrenia Group (Cure et al 2005), the ongoing meta-analyses of Mark Lipsey (e.g., 1992) on juvenile delinquency treatment and prevention at the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology at Vanderbilt, and a more recent review of experiments by Farrington and Welsh (2005).”
Evaluating offending behaviour programmes (2008, background): “Now, as Farrington et al. stress, the Scientific Methods Scale ‘Focuses only on internal validity’ (2002: 17): thus the Home Office adaptation of the SMS loses the original intent of the scale in claiming to be an unqualified measure of research quality. Given the absence of any scientific justifica”
The power few: experimental criminology and the reduction of harm (2007, background): “That conclusion can be drawn from Farrington’s reviews of 35 randomized experiments in crime and justice reported in 1957–1981 (Farrington 1983), of 83 more reported in 1982–2004 ( Farrington and Welsh 2005 ), and in his 2005 McCord Lecture on a systematic review of the effects of community-based pr”
A random walk in the literature on criminality: A partial and critical view on some statistical analyses and modelling approaches (2010, unknown): “randomised controlled trials can give useful and unbiased information about the crime variables [38, 63].”