The Human Experiment in Treatment

Doris Layton MacKenzie; Gaylene Styve Armstrong

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The Human Experiment in Treatment

Doris Layton MacKenzie, Gaylene Styve Armstrong

Sociology and Criminology

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This chapter highlights the role that high-quality evaluations, especially randomized experiments, and rigorous techniques of research synthesis (which include high-quality evaluations) have played in recent years in drawing attention to the importance and effectiveness of correctional treatment for offenders as well as the ineffectiveness of many popular "get tough" programs.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Future of Criminology
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199950430
ISBN (Print)	9780199917938
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199917938.003.0024
State	Published - Sep 20 2012

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