The Evidence-Based Decision Making in Local Criminal Justice Systems Initiative – In June 2008, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) awarded the Center for Effective Public Policy, in partnership with the Pretrial Justice Institute, the Justice Management Institute, and The Carey Group, a cooperative agreement to address “Evidence-Based Decision Making in Local Criminal Justice Systems.” The goal of the initiative is to build a system wide framework (arrest through final disposition and discharge) that will result in more collaborative, evidence-based decision making and practices in local criminal justice systems.
- The principle product of Phase I of this initiative is the Evidence-Based Decision Making Framework in Local Criminal Justice Systems
. The Framework identifies the key structural elements of a system informed by evidence-based practice. more…
The Campbell Collaboration: Crime and Justice Group – Named after the late social psychologist Donald Campbell who was interested in encouraging experimentation and evidence-based social policy, the organization aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas. Its Crime & Justice Coordinating Group is an international network of researchers that prepares, updates, and rapidly disseminates systematic reviews of high-quality research conducted worldwide on effective methods to reduce crime and delinquency and improve the quality of justice.
Carey Guides – These Guides are designed to provide officers and their supervisors with 15-minute tools on how to address criminogenic needs and do effective case management.
Corrections Evidence-Based Decision Making Innovators’ Group. White Paper: Evidence Based Decision Making in Local Justice Systems: A Project of the National Institute of Corrections . Presented at the Innovators’ Group Video Conference #1, January 8, 2008
EPPI Centre – Part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London, The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre conducts systematic reviews of research evidence across a range of topics, including education, health promotion, employment, social care, crime and justice.
Evidence-Based Planning and Needs Analysis. Crime Prevention Division, New South Wales Attorney General’s Department, Australia.
Articles & Presentations
Boyle, Patrick. Curfews and Crime: If research says they don’t work, why do communities keep adopting them? Youth Today. Nov. 2006
Carey, Mark & Domurad, Frank. Step‐By‐Step Planning Guide: Six Phases Toward Implementing Evidence‐Based Practices for Risk Reduction . The Carey Goup. May 28, 2010.
Chapman, Tim & Hough, Michael. (Furniss, M. Jane, Ed.) Evidence Based Practice: a Guide to Effective Practice . HM Inspectorate of Probation (UK). July 31, 1998
Domurad, Frank. Disruptive Innovations and EBP: Why Can’t We Get It Right? [slides , Participants' Manual with exercises ] Presented at the California Association of Probation Services Administrators, 22nd Annual Training Conference, January 2011
Domurad, Frank. Disruptive Innovations Evidence-Based Practices Community Corrections 
. Presented at the American Probation and Parole Association Conference 2008.
“I have been thinking for a while about the high failure rates that we have in community corrections with respect to our attempts to implement EBP. My conclusion is that we have been approaching the issue of implementation from a ‘glass half empty‘ rather than a ‘glass half full perspective.’
Disruptive innovations, such as walk-in health care clinics in supermarkets and drug stores, are designed to address situations where the current solutions result in no solution at all, i.e where millions of Americans have little or no health insurance and no access to health care except the hospital emergency room. In community corrections, we have been taking the research in terms of EBP content, the need for collaboration and organizational development, and providing agencies this long list of things that they have to do. The result is resistance and glazed eyes as they think to themselves, ‘I will never have the resources or time to do all of this.’ I am now starting to advocate a ‘good enough‘ approach to EBP in our field. Just as walk-in health care clinics are ‘good enough‘ for the majority of health problems that Americans face, so we must develop research-based tools to assist our professionals to start a ‘good enough‘ implementation of EBP and build from there.” (Domurad)
Domurad, Frank. Doing Evidence-Based Practices Ain’t for Sissies . Community Corrections Report, 12:4, May/June 2005, p. 49-50; 61-63
Domurad, Frank. Getting Corrections Professionals to Take Their EBP Medicine . APPA Summer Institute, August 2010
Domurad, Frank. Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil: The Ethical Imperative of Evidence-Based Practices . Community Corrections Report, 13:1, November/December 2005, p. 1-2; 9-12
Domurad, Frank. Mirror Mirror on the Wall . Originally appeared in Community Corrections Report, 15:3, March/April 2008, p. 33-34, 39-40, 42, 46-47
Domurad, Frank. Role of Evidence-Based Management and Supervision in Camp Redesign . The Carey Group, Inc. August 8, 2007
Domurad, Frank. Role of Evidence-Based Management and Supervision in Camp Redesign: Participants Manual . The Carey Group, Inc. August 21, 2007
” We recently received some excellent material on implementing evidence-based practices and changing behavior in criminology from Frank Domurad. The exercises described in the Participants’ Manual could be readily adopted for other settings and issues, and is extremely useful for helping people develop evidence-based practice. The Carey Group has begun developing short summaries of research relevant to criminology policy and practice. Once again, this would be a wonderful model for other domains, including evidence-based management. ” (Jeffrey Pfeffer)
Domurad, Frank. Say It Three Times and It Must be Evidence-Based Collaboration:
Part One (The Problem) . Offender Programs Report, 13:5, January/February 2010, p. 65, 68-73
Part Two (The Solution) . Offender Programs Report, 14:1, May/June 2010, p. 1-2, 11-16
Paciotti, Brian. Evidence-Based Corrections and the Hotel California. Evidence-basedmanagement.com. Posted on July 17, 2007
Sherman, Lawrence W. Evidence-Based Policing . Ideas in American Policing. Police Foundation. July 1998.
Tilley, Nick. Realistic Evaluation: An Overview . Presented at the Founding Conference of the Danish Evaluation Society, September 2000
“a newly uncovered, very interesting and relevant, article about evaluating interventions, with particular relevance to social policy in general and criminology in particular.” (Jeff Pfeffer)
Tilley, Nick & Laycock, Gloria. Working Out What to Do: Evidence-Based Crime Reduction Crime Reduction Research Series no. 11. Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, Home Office, UK, 2002
Book
Sherman, Lawrence W., Farrington, David P., MacKenzie, Doris Layton, Welsh, Brandon C. (Eds.). Evidence-based crime prevention. Rev. ed. London: Routledge, 2006.
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