External validity and assignment of experimental vs. control treatment providers within small work groups: a research note

External validity and assignment of experimental vs. control treatment providers within small work groups: a research note Abstract Objectives When offenders or victims are randomly assigned to receive experimental vs.…
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The trick does not work if you have already seen the gorilla: how anticipatory effects contaminate pre-treatment measures in field experiments

The trick does not work if you have already seen the gorilla: how anticipatory effects contaminate pre-treatment measures in field experiments Abstract Objectives If participants can anticipate the intervention, they…
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How do body-worn cameras affect the amount and makeup of police-initiated activities? A randomized controlled trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

How do body-worn cameras affect the amount and makeup of police-initiated activities? A randomized controlled trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Abstract Objectives Examine how the amount and makeup of police-initiated activities…
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Compliance, noncompliance, and the in-between: causal effects of civilian demeanor on police officers’ cognitions and emotions

Compliance, noncompliance, and the in-between: causal effects of civilian demeanor on police officers’ cognitions and emotions Abstract Objectives Police legitimacy can hinge on what happens in police–civilian encounters, yet much…
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Testing filter term performance in PsycINFO to identify evidence syntheses in crime reduction, using the relative recall method

Testing filter term performance in PsycINFO to identify evidence syntheses in crime reduction, using the relative recall method Abstract Objectives To test filter term performance against an original search strategy…
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What can we do to reduce disciplinary school exclusion? A systematic review and meta-analysis

What can we do to reduce disciplinary school exclusion? A systematic review and meta-analysis Abstract Objectives To systematically review and quantitatively synthesise the evidence for the impact of different types…
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Preventing treatment spillover contamination in criminological field experiments: the case of body-worn police cameras

Preventing treatment spillover contamination in criminological field experiments: the case of body-worn police cameras Abstract Objectives A central issue in experiments is protecting the integrity of causal identification from treatment…
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Follow-up of a social skills training (SST) for juvenile delinquents: effects on reoffending

Follow-up of a social skills training (SST) for juvenile delinquents: effects on reoffending Abstract Objectives To examine (1) the long-term effects on reoffending of an individual SST for juvenile delinquents…
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Human trafficking for labour exploitation: the results of a two-phase systematic review mapping the European evidence base and synthesising key scientific research evidence

Human trafficking for labour exploitation: the results of a two-phase systematic review mapping the European evidence base and synthesising key scientific research evidence Abstract Objectives Our objectives were (1) to…
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Paradoxical effects of self-awareness of being observed: testing the effect of police body-worn cameras on assaults and aggression against officers

Paradoxical effects of self-awareness of being observed: testing the effect of police body-worn cameras on assaults and aggression against officers Abstract Objectives Recently, scholars have applied self-awareness theory to explain…
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