Question

 Use the readings below to answer the question. Answer in 300+ words and end with a question to peers. 

Discussion Question:

How can evaluation research inform evidence-based practice? Why is it important to reach practitioners with evaluation research findings? 

1. Practical Program Evaluation for Criminal Justice. Vito & Higgins (2014). Chapter 10
2. Laub, J. H., & Sampson, R. J. (2019). Life-course and developmental criminology: looking back, moving forward—ASC Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology Inaugural David P. Farrington Lecture, 2017. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 1-14.
3. Farrington, D. P., Lösel, F., Braga, A. A., Mazerolle, L., Raine, A., Sherman, L. W., & Weisburd, D. (2020). Experimental criminology: looking back and forward on the 20th anniversary of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 16(4), 649-673.
4. Copes, H., Tewksbury, R., & Sandberg, S. (2016). Publishing qualitative research in criminology and criminal justice journals. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 27(1), 121-139.