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14 Just. Rsch. & Pol'y 1 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/jcerhadp14 and id is 1 raw text is: SPECIAL ISSUE ON EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY AND PRACTICE 0 INTRODUCTION Roger Przybylski Consultant and Founder RKC Group JRP Guest Editor The emergence of the evidence-based movement is arguably one of the most sig- nificant developments to occur in criminal and juvenile justice over the past 20 years (Travis, 2012; Lipsey, Howell, Kelly, Chapman, & Carver, 2010; and the Howell and Lipsey article in this special issue). In the early 1990s, the term ev- idence-based was largely unknown in the criminal and juvenile justice commu- nities. Looking back, it is difficult to imagine how any of us at that time could have envisioned how the evidence-based movement would affect crime control policymaking, practice, and even research in the coming years. Today, the imprint of the movement is widespread. Crime control policy and program development processes are increasingly being informed by scientific evidence, and many prac- tices in policing, corrections, delinquency prevention, and other areas have been, and continue to be, shaped by evidence generated through research. Incentives and even mandates for evidence-based programming are now frequently used by funding sources, and virtually anyone can now access an unprecedented amount of information about what works to prevent and control crime using online reposito- ries such as CrimeSolutions.gov. Moreover, the demand for trustworthy, research- generated evidence and evidence-based applications is rapidly increasing. While researchers have played a key role in expanding evidence-based prac- tice, the widespread and accelerating demand for evidence and evidence-based ap- plications has had an impact on the research community as well as on practice. Evaluation and other research designed to identify effective interventions is far more common today than a few decades ago, and research centers aimed at ad- vancing the development and use of research-generated evidence have emerged in JUSTICE RESEARCH AND POLICY, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2012 © 2012 Justice Research and Statistics Association