Module 4
Criminal Justice Policy
, Evidence Based Practices
• Utilizing research in pursuit of identifying programs, policy
initiatives, or Practices that work.
• The Office of Justice Programs (OJP):
• Considers programs and practices to be evidence based
when;
• Their effectiveness has been demonstrated by causal
evidence,
• The evidence is obtained through high quality evaluations,
• Causal evidence is based in scientific methods to rule out, to
the extent possible, alternative explanations for the
documented change.
Criminal Justice Policy
, Evidence Based Practices
• Utilizing research in pursuit of identifying programs, policy
initiatives, or Practices that work.
• The Office of Justice Programs (OJP):
• Considers programs and practices to be evidence based
when;
• Their effectiveness has been demonstrated by causal
evidence,
• The evidence is obtained through high quality evaluations,
• Causal evidence is based in scientific methods to rule out, to
the extent possible, alternative explanations for the
documented change.
