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Crimesolutions.gov: "What Works" in Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice and Crime Victim Services

Edward Latessa, University of Cincinnati
NIJ Conference 2011
June 20-22

Edward Latessa The impact of the site on the field will be substantial. The reason is because people are always seeking to find out what works and what doesn't across a wide range of areas. This website is gonna bring that information together in a very systematic way, in a way that's easy for people to understand. It's very transparent; they can see kind of what we did and how we did it, and it will summarize what we know in those areas. We're in the infancy now, we're basically reviewing individual studies across the topic areas: corrections, crime prevention, policing, and so forth. My hope is that as we move into topics in more specific areas, we're not only gonna review individual studies, were going to be able to bring together the information in a way that will help people understand the body of knowledge in an area. For example, not a question of whether a drug court is effective, but rather how effective are drug courts? What makes them more effective? Can we learn from the research who is best suited for a drug court, how long they should last, and so forth? So, I really see this as a process where we start out by reviewing studies, we eventually start to systematically pull out from those reviews, and at some point, this becomes a jumping off point for more research because we can see what gaps exist, and researchers can then start to fill in those gaps, rather than spending time plowing through territory we already know, so I'm very optimistic that this can be a very important addition to the field.

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Edward Latessa, University of Cincinnati
NIJ Conference
June 2011

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Date created: October 24, 2011