Mass Evidence-Based Policy as an Alternative to Mass Incarceration

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Abstract Abstract In this chapter, the authors argue for an investment in evidence-based policy (EBP) through the prioritization of research, including creating the infrastructure necessary to generate credible evidence and the incorporation of the evaluation hierarchy into policy development, implementation, and assessment. In advancing this argument, they highlight the profound disconnect between mass incarceration and policymaker calls for EBP. They highlight, too, problems that stem from the disjuncture and what the contemporary criminal justice landscape could have been with investment in policy grounded in strong science. The assessment leads them to conclude that a fundamental shift in political priorities and research infrastructure is needed to create mass EBP. This shift entails institutionalizing and increasing funding for research at multiple governmental levels and creating agency requirements to undertake need, theory, implementation, impact, and efficiency evaluations of existing and proposed policy. Finally, they argue that mass EBP is a realistic possibility and, to reduce crime and increase justice, a necessity.

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