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- Title
Lessons from a field experiment involving involuntary subjects 3,000 miles away.
- Authors
Hawken, Angela
- Abstract
Objectives: Describe the challenges involved in conducting field experiments that entail a long distance between the research team and the research site. Methods: A summary of the lessons learned from the field experiment of Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE). Results: Pre-trial planning is especially important when the research team is a long distance from the research site. A good communication strategy helps educate practitioners on the merits of conservative design choices, such as intent-to-treat, and helps to signal the importance of the study and therefore of maintaining the condition assignments and delivering the intervention with fidelity. Conclusions: Distance creates additional challenges for the research team. These challenges make it even more essential to exploit assets at the research site. Distance creates more uncertainty, which makes pre-planning even more important, but it is expensive. Criminal-justice funding agencies' support for exploratory studies as precursors to full-blown trials would improve the quality of experimental criminal-justice research.
- Subjects
RESEARCH methodology; STRATEGIC planning; PROBATION; CRIMINAL justice system; RESEARCH teams; COMMUNICATION
- Publication
Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2012, Vol 8, Issue 3, p227
- ISSN
1573-3750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11292-012-9156-x