SOCI 4410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Meta-Analysis

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 4410
• Professor: Daryl Davies

Document Summary

1974 robert martinson: the journal of public interest --> evaluate whether or not programs work (reducing crime) 6 month search of literature about rehab and programs from 1945-1967 to see if programs work. Where they interpretable? met the standards of social science research (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) end result: by in larger, most programs, don"t work most of the time, for most o enders. Had to use a control group caused a major controversy world wide because it arose the questions of why use programs and hire psychologists. Employ an independent measure of an improvement of that method. Presented only a summary of ndings and did not allow the reader to evaluate those ndings. Description of the treatment in question was incomprehensible. Samples were undescribed or too small or provided no true compatibility between treated and untreated groups. Did not use enough details for studies to do replications of the study (cid:12254)