@article{ref1,
title="Making a difference - or not: an evaluation of the effects of failing to evaluate (editorial)",
journal="American journal of criminal justice",
year="2019",
author="Krohn, Marvin D.",
volume="44",
number="4",
pages="520-535",
abstract="I am two months short of the 45th anniversary of attending my first professional criminology conference.. I recall being at the American Society of Criminology meeting in 1973 in an auditorium at John Jay College listening to a presentation that made several references to the soon to be published study by Martinson (1974) on correctional effectiveness. This study was the latest in a series of studies (Bailey, 1966; Robison & Smith, 1971) lamenting the fact that, as Martinson (1974; p. 25) stated, &quot;with few and isolated exceptions, the rehabilitative efforts that have been reported so far have had no appreciable effect on recidivism.&quot; While the more extensive examination that Martinson also contributed to did contain some more optimistic assessments of correctional strategies (Lipton, Martinson, & Wilks, 1975), the take-away message was one of questioning whether we knew what we were doing.   Earlier that summer I had completed my comprehensive exams. I was as immersed in the literature...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1066-2316",
doi="10.1007/s12103-019-09477-5",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12103-019-09477-5"
}