Cures That Harm: Unanticipated Outcomes of Crime Prevention Programs

By J. Mccord. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Interpretable classification models for recidivism prediction (2015, background): “…use in different countries and areas of the criminal justice system, spurred on by continued research into the superiority of actuarial judgment (Dawes et al. 1989, Grove and Meehl 1996) as well as a desire to efﬁciently use limited public resources (Clements 1996, Simon 2005, McCord 1978, 2003).”
Psychological Treatments That Cause Harm (2007, background): “…or perhaps slightly higher percentages of negative effect sizes (e.g., Shapiro & Shapiro, 1982), and a meta-analysis of studies of treatments for adolescent behavioral problems indicated that as many as 29% of effect sizes were negative (Lipsey, 1992; see also McCord, 2003, and Rhule, 2005).”
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): “There is wide agreement among evaluation researchers that nonrandomized studies present distinct limitations for drawing policy conclusions (Boruch 1997; Campbell and Russo 1999; Farrington et al. 2002; McCord 2003; Weisburd 2003).”
Publication bias as a threat to the validity of meta-analytic results (2008, background): “McCord (2003) has done an excellent job highlighting the fact that interventions in criminal justice intended to help may sometimes harm; to the extent that publication bias exists in systematic reviews in this area, this problem may be more widespread than previously thought.”
A meta-analytic review of court-mandated batterer intervention programs: Can courts affect abusers’ behavior? (2005, background): “safety as well as efficacy, the choice of which social programs to use will remain a dangerous guess^ ( McCord 2003: 16 ).”
The place of the officer-offender relationship in assisting offenders to desist from crime (2005, background): “likely to have been peer pressure while attending the camps (McCord, 2003).”
Peer Contagion in Child and Adolescent Social and Emotional Development (2011, background): “$w aterm ark-text $w aterm ark-text $w aterm ark-text youth program, she found that sending high-risk youth to summer camps was associated with an increased likelihood of long-term iatrogenic effects (McCord 2003).”
Deviant Peer Influences in Intervention and Public Policy for Youth (2006, methodology): “The Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study (McCord, 1992; 2003) is the largest mental health intervention experiment ever to prevent antisocial behavior among youth who were selected because of their early displays of deviant behavior.”
Take Care to Do No Harm: Harmful Interventions for Youth Problem Behavior (2005, background): “McCord (2003) noted a strong resistance in the field of psychology to reveal, report, or receive information about adverse effects of interventions.”
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”
The Effectiveness of Counter-Terrorism Strategies (2006, background): “As examples in social policy have shown, programs are often not effective and can sometimes increase the problem or cause further social negatives (see McCord, 2003).”