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experimental criminology  

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  • Experimental criminology is the body of criminal justice research that employs experimental designs to test the effectiveness of criminal justice interventions. While experimental designs abound in other disciplines, they tend to be less common in criminal justice research. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Experimental Criminology]

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