Abstract
Criminal justice, a social science discipline intersecting law, psychiatry, psychology, sociology, and social work, continues to work toward developing effective solutions to crime control and reduction. Increasing numbers of criminologists are engaging an applied evidence-based strategy used widely in medical and public health research. These rigorous research methods more validly assess the effects of mandated programs and policies in criminal justice. This chapter provides a foundational understanding of the circumstances that birthed the traditional approach to research taken by criminologists and how several factors are moving the field to using an evidence-based approach. Two overarching recommendations from this review are the need for (1) more classes in experimental research at the graduate level, and (2) mentoring young criminologists on ways to run experiments within criminal justice agencies to ensure continued use of these methods by the next generation of criminologists.
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