Routledge Handbook of Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Practices

• Serves as a how-to reference guide written in a brief and accessible format, providing detailed descriptions of programs and practices empirically demonstrated to be effective and fair, and to produce desired outcomes.• Contains information that is in high demand by “boots on the ground” practitioners, trainees and academics, community organizers, policymakers, and researchers across a variety of interdisciplinary fields.• The first to provide a comprehensive and action-oriented overview of evidence-based research and proven practices, in a bite-sized format, describing “what works” for the most pressing issues in crime prevention, policing, courts, corrections, sanctions, and sentencing.