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Anthony Petrosino
Researcher at WestEd
Publications - 72
Citations - 3515
Anthony Petrosino is an academic researcher from WestEd. The author has contributed to research in topics: Systematic review & Justice (ethics). The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 72 publications receiving 3324 citations. Previous affiliations of Anthony Petrosino include American Academy of Arts and Sciences & Harvard University.
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Does Research Design Affect Study Outcomes in Criminal Justice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between research design and study outcomes in a broad review of research evidence on crime and justice commissioned by the National Institute of Justice and found that design does have a systematic effect on outcomes in criminal justice studies.
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Program theory evaluation: Practice, promise, and problems
TL;DR: This chapter provides an overview of program theory evalu- ation (PTE), based on a search to find what was value-added to evaluations that used this approach, and discusses the practice, promise, and problems of PTE.
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The devil is in the details: examining the evidence for "proven" school-based drug abuse prevention programs.
Allison Gruner Gandhi,Erin Murphy-Graham,Anthony Petrosino,Sara Schwartz Chrismer,Carol H. Weiss +4 more
TL;DR: The authors’ examination of this research raises questions about the process used to identify and publicize programs as successful, and finds limited evidence showing substantial impact on drug use behavior at posttest, with very few studies show substantial impact at longer follow-ups.
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Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency: A Systematic Review of the Randomized Experimental Evidence
TL;DR: It is found that the intervention on average is more harmful to juveniles than doing nothing, and governments should institute rigorous programs of research to ensure that well-intentioned treatments do not cause harm to the citizens they pledge to protect.
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'Scared Straight' and other juvenile awareness programs for preventing juvenile delinquency
TL;DR: Nine studies involving the organized visits of delinquents or children at risk for delinquency to penal institutions such as prisons or re formatives are reviewed, showing the intervention to be more harmful than doing nothing.