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10 J. Experimental Criminology 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/jexpcrm10 and id is 1 raw text is: J Exp Criminol (2014) 10:1-28 DOI 10.1007/s11292-013-9183-2 The growth of randomized experiments in policing: the vital few and the salience of mentoring Anthony A. Braga - Brandon C. Welsh- Andrew V Papachristos - Cory Schnell- Leigh Grossman Published online: 25 August 2013 O Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Abstract Objectives The population of randomized experiments in policing is used to examine co-author and mentoring relations in the professional network of scholars and assess if experimental criminology is on the path to creating the necessary social capital to promote the use of randomized controlled trials in criminology and criminal justice research. Methods We use systematic review methods to identify the population of policing experiments. Narrative review and descriptive statistics are used to examine the growth of policing experiments over time. Social network analysis techniques are used to analyze and describe the co-authoring and mentoring connections of the scholars responsible for completing policing experiments. Results We find that the number of policing experiments increased substantially between 1970 and 2011. The growth in policing randomized experiments has been largely generated by a very small number of scholars who account for the bulk of policing experiments and have been very active in mentoring the next generation of experimentalists. Another important factor associated with the rise in policing exper- iment is the availability of federal funding. A. A. Braga - C. Schnell - L. Grossman Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA A. A. Braga (E) Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA e-mail: anthonybragagharvard.edu B. C. Welsh Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA B. C. Welsh Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, The Netherlands A. V Papachristos Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 4L Springer