Exploring New Tools to Enhance CrimeSolutions

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Government agencies began creating online registries of evidence-based programs and practices in the late 1990s as a means to prioritize programs and eliminate interventions that were shown to be ineffective. Today, multiple government registries collect, review, rate, and subsequently categorize hundreds of evaluation studies, including the National Institute of Justice’s CrimeSolutions database. This panel includes presentations to describe multiple efforts to further enhance the information provided on that database.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 52. Challenging Criminal Justice Policies

Individual Presentations

• Developing an Empirically Based Effect Size Distribution for Crime Intervention Programs on CrimeSolutions - Stephen Gies, Development Services Group, Inc.

• Development and Implementation of a Prioritized Outcomes List for CrimeSolutions - Rachel Keller, Development Services Group, Inc.

• Now or Later: Do Different Assessment Points Lead to Different Ratings in Evidence-Based Registries? - Rachel Stephenson, Development Services Group, Inc.

Chair

• Rachel Stephenson, Development Services Group, Inc.

Discussant

• Kaitlyn Sill, National Institute of Justice