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"Now more than ever, the criminal justice system, and the programs, policies, and practices within it, are subject to increased public scrutiny, due to well-founded concerns over effectiveness, fairness, and potential unintended consequences. One of the best means to address these concerns is to draw upon evidence-based approaches demonstrated to be effective through empirical research, rather than through anecdote, standard practice, or professional experience alone (National Institute of Justice, 2011). The goal of this book is to describe the most useful, actionable, and evidence-based solutions to many of the most pressing questions in the criminal justice system today. Specifically, this edited volume contains brief and accessible summaries of the best available research, alongside detailed descriptions of evidence-based practices, across different areas of the criminal justice system. It is written so that practitioners and researchers alike can use the text as reference tool in their work and in training the new generation of individuals working to improve the system. Researchers and practitioners in many areas of criminal justice - crime prevention, policing, courts (prosecution, defendants, judges), corrections, sanctions, and sentencing - can reference specific chapters in this book to guide their policy and practice decisions. Although theory is a guide for the practices described, the chapters will address practical issues in implementation and action. This book overcomes the limitations of previous criminal justice practice books in that it is written as a practice resource and reference guide and spans practices and policies across different sectors of the criminal justice system - from prevention to policing to sanctions and corrections. Each chapter contains a list of action items, based upon the best available scientific research, that can be implemented in practice to address key issues and long standing challenges in the criminal justice system"--

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Evidence-Based Approaches and Implementation Challenges and Solutions -- Part I Crime Prevention -- 2 Social Disorganization Theory and Community-Based Interventions -- 3 Evidence-Based Employment Practices to Reduce Offending -- 4 Mental Health Interventions and Crisis Response Teams -- 5 Opioid Use Disorder, Infectious Disease, and Coordinated Harm Reduction in a Medical Setting -- 6 Adult Victims of Violence: Outcomes and Services -- 7 Toward Evidence-Based Human Trafficking Prevention -- Part II Juvenile Justice and Early Interventions -- 8 School-Based Prevention and Criminal Justice -- 9 Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Practices: Current Status and Strategies for Successful Youth Outreach and Enrichment Programming -- 10 Juvenile Residential and Out-of-Home Placement: Programs and Interventions -- 11 Juvenile Justice Practices -- 12 Youth Decision-Making and Juvenile Justice Policy -- Part III Predictors of Crime and Risk Assessment -- 13 Adverse Childhood Experiences and Offending: Strategies for Prevention, Intervention, Building Resiliency -- 14 Early Psychosocial Risk Factors and Implications for Prevention -- 15 Revisiting the Role of Sanction Risk Perceptions in Deterrence Policy -- 16 Sexual Offence Recidivism and Risk Assessment -- 17 Implementation Science and Evidence-Based Violence Risk Assessment -- Part IV Policing -- 18 Evidence-Based Police Patrol Practices at Crime Hotspots -- 19 Policing Technology -- 20 Drug Enforcement and Its Effectiveness -- 21 Evidence-Based Practices for Policing Domestic Violence -- 22 Interviewing and Interrogations: From the Third Degree to Science-Based Approaches -- 23 Evidence-Based Policing Reform and Building Police-Community Relations -- Part V The Courts.