SPECIAL SERIES: PROBLEM SOLVING COURTS AND THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE: JUST THE (UNWIELDY, HARD TO GATHER BUT NONETHELESS ESSENTIAL) FACTS, MA'AM: WHAT WE KNOW AND DON'T KNOW ABOUT PROBLEM-SOLVING COURTS
In: Fordham Urban Law Journal, Jg. 30 (2003-03-01), S. 1027
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Policymakers often think, incorrectly, that an evaluation is like an "audit" or trial in which the results are usually clear cut and definitive. Either the funds were spent or they weren't; either the program served its intended beneficiaries at a reasonable cost per client or it didn't. Such "audit" questions are much easier to answer than the "evaluation" questions of cause and effect, often stretching out over a lifetime of the targets of crime prevention efforts. 1 The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero. 2 Introduction Robert Martinson's seminal 1974 Public Interest article, What Works? Questions and Answers About Prison Reform offered a bleak assessment of rehabilitative initiatives aimed at criminal offenders. 3 This literary review of prison-based treatment programs - from vocational training to psychotherapy - concluded that, "with few and isolated exceptions, the rehabilitative efforts that have been reported so far have had no appreciable effect on recidivism." 4 Martinson determined the failure of treatment programs by demonstrating a failure of research because the more than 200 studies he reviewed gave little evidence that the programs studied were linked to a reduction in crime. 5 Yet, what seems to have most frustrated the author were the studies themselves, many of which left unclear whether the programs had not worked, or whether the system under which they were administered prevented successful implementation. 6 Martinson's hugely influential article cast a pall over rehabilitative criminal justice programs for years. To ...
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SPECIAL SERIES: PROBLEM SOLVING COURTS AND THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE: JUST THE (UNWIELDY, HARD TO GATHER BUT NONETHELESS ESSENTIAL) FACTS, MA'AM: WHAT WE KNOW AND DON'T KNOW ABOUT PROBLEM-SOLVING COURTS
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Berman, Greg |
Zeitschrift: | Fordham Urban Law Journal, Jg. 30 (2003-03-01), S. 1027 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2003 |
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