RT Article
T1 What Works in Evalutation Research?
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 34
IS 3
SP 291
OP 306
A1 Pawson, Ray 1948-
A2 Tilley, Nick 1947-
LA English
YR 1994
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639656286
AB British criminology has evolved its own distinctive division of labour. Theorists theorize, ethnographers empathize, statisticians soothsay, and so on. Unlike other areas of scholarship, this arrangement allows little time or gain for anyone bent on fundamental reflection on the nature of criminological research. Whilst (thankfully) this has had the effect of avoiding the unproductive epistemological brawls which characterize neighbouring disciplines, it can lead to a directionless research strategy founded on a taken-for-granted pragmatism. This paper examines the case of evaluation research' in the criminal justice area and attempts to inject some strategic thinking into this, the dourest, most matter-of-fact corner of the literature. On offer is a brief (and at this length) polemical case, arguing that the quasi-experimental paradigm has resulted in moribund evaluation, being itself a contributing factor to the nothing works' lament. Rescue is at hand in the form of a scientific realist' approach to evaluation
K1 Methodologie
K1 Polizeiforschung
K1 Behandlungsforschung
K1 Experimente
K1 Evaluation
K1 Evaluationsforschung