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1 J. Experimental Criminology 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/jexpcrm1 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Experimental Criminology (2005) 1: 1-8 Editors' introduction The Journal of Experimental Criminology focuses on high-quality experimental and quasi-experimental research in the development of evidence-based crime and justice policy. The journal is also committed to the advancement of the science of systematic reviews and experimental methods in criminology and criminal justice. The journal seeks empirical papers on experimental and quasi-experimental studies, systematic reviews on substantive criminal justice problems and method- ological papers on experimentation and systematic review. The journal encourages submissions from scholars in a broad array of scientific disciplines that are concerned with crime and justice problems. Over the last quarter of a century randomized experiments have become a growing part of the evidence base of criminology, and public policy makers have begun to recognize the value of strongly designed experimental and quasi- experimental studies in the advancement of evidence-based policy. With the establishment of the Academy of Experimental Criminology in 1999 (http:// www.crim.upenn.edu/aec) and the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group (http://www.aic.gov.au/campbellcj) shortly afterwards, there has also been a growing base for the development of evidence-based approaches in Crime and Justice and for attention to the methodological questions that experimental criminology raises. The Journal of Experimental Criminology is thus part of a developing recognition by academic criminologists, criminal justice researchers, crime and justice practitioners and policy makers that experimental science has become an important part of the science of criminology. In this first issue of the journal, we thought it important to explicitly define the journal's focus and the nature of the contributions it seeks to make to the field of criminology. We begin by detailing the importance of experimental methods and the basic rationale for experimental study. We then turn to the importance of evidence-based policy and the role of systematic reviews in informing both re- search and policy. Finally, we introduce the specific contributions in this inaugural issue. Why experimental criminology? The importance of a focus on experimental criminology can be found in what scholars define as the internal validity of a study. A research design in which the effects of a treatment or intervention can be clearly distinguished from other effects is defined as having high internal validity. A research design in which the effects of treatment are confounded by other factors is one in which there is low internal validity. Accordingly, internal validity is an essential criterion for © Springer 2005

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