POUR eo) ZEY> 'T |\ | ci Sg LE OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF — POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Volume 589 Septe mber 2003 IN THIS ISSUE: Misleading Evidence and Evidence-Led eae Making Social Science More Experimenta Special Editor; LAWRENCE W. SHERMAN Preface: Misleading Evidence and Evidence-Led Policy: Making Social Science More Experimental Lawrence W. Sherman Section One: Why Experiments Matter Trying to Do More Good than Harm in Policy and Practice: The Role of Rigorous, Transparent, Up-to-Date Evaluations lain Chalmers Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency: A Systematic Review of the Randomized Experimental Evidence Anthony Petrosino, Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, and John Buehler Nonexperimental versus Experimental Estimates of Earnings Impacts............... Steven Glazerman, Dan M. Levy, and David Myers The Underprovision of Experiments in Political Science Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber Section Two: Resistance to Experiments Why Have Educational Evaluators Chosen Not to Do Randomized Experiments? Thomas D. Cook POUR eo) ZEY> 'T |\ | ci Sg LE OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF — POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Volume 589 Septe mber 2003 IN THIS ISSUE: Misleading Evidence and Evidence-Led eae Making Social Science More Experimenta Special Editor; LAWRENCE W. SHERMAN Preface: Misleading Evidence and Evidence-Led Policy: Making Social Science More Experimental Lawrence W. Sherman Section One: Why Experiments Matter Trying to Do More Good than Harm in Policy and Practice: The Role of Rigorous, Transparent, Up-to-Date Evaluations lain Chalmers Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency: A Systematic Review of the Randomized Experimental Evidence Anthony Petrosino, Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, and John Buehler Nonexperimental versus Experimental Estimates of Earnings Impacts............... Steven Glazerman, Dan M. Levy, and David Myers The Underprovision of Experiments in Political Science Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber Section Two: Resistance to Experiments Why Have Educational Evaluators Chosen Not to Do Randomized Experiments? Thomas D. Cook British Randomized Experiments on Crime and Justice David P. Farrington 150 Section Three: The Growth of Experimental Evidence Using Random Allocation to Evaluate Social Interventions: Three Recent U.K. Examples ........ . Ann Oakley, Vicki Strange, Tami Toroyan, Meg Wiggins, lan Roberts, and Judith Stephenson Estimates of Randomized Controlled Trials across Six Areas of Childhood Intervention: A Bibliometric Analysis Anthony Petrosino Populating an International Web-Based Randomized Trials Register in the Social, Behavioral, Criminological, and DN OMINOUE od hws Nae ean Pawar vce ks Herbert Turner, Robert Boruch, Anthony Petrosino, Julia Lavenberg, Dorothy de Moya, and Hannah Rothstein 203 Section Four: Book Review Essay Experimental Evidence and Governmental Administration Lawrence W. Sherman 226 FORTHCOMING Rethinking Sustainable Development Special Editor: JUDE FERNANDO Volume 590, November 2003 Hope, Power, and Governance Special Editor: VALERIE BRAITHWAITE Volume 591, January 2004