Abstract Criminal justice evaluations are funded and executed in a policy environment increasingly characterized by intense competition that creates a premium on studies utilizing experimental methods. Randomization, however, is not a universally suitable method for answering all questions of criminal justice policy and practice. Experimental designs are particularly ill-suited for addressing key analytical challenges and exploiting important opportunities in justice, including discontinuity effects, interventions that depend on the perceptions and beliefs of individuals, and models of general policy change. Experiments are also rarely able to reliably measure and isolate the effects of very complex justice interventions. Policymakers and practitioners in the justice sector should consider evaluation research as a portfolio of strategic investments in knowledge development. Randomized controlled trials are merely one asset in a broader investment strategy.

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好的问题：在竞争性政策环境中建立评估证据

摘要刑事司法评估是在一个以竞争日益激烈为特征的政策环境中提供资金和执行的，竞争日益激烈，这为利用实验方法进行研究提供了溢价。然而，随机化并不是回答刑事司法政策和实践所有问题的普遍适用方法。实验设计特别不适合应对关键的分析挑战并利用司法中的重要机会，包括不连续性影响，依赖于个人看法和信念的干预措施以及总体政策变化模型。实验也很少能够可靠地测量和隔离非常复杂的司法干预措施的效果。司法部门的决策者和从业人员应将评估研究视为知识开发中战略投资的组合。随机对照试验只是更广泛的投资策略中的一项资产。