"September 2003."

Preface :Misleading evidence and evidence-led policy: making social science more experimental / Lawrence W. Sherman -- Section 1. Why experiments matter -- Trying to do more good than harm in policy and practice: the role of rigorous, transparent, up-to-date evaluations / Iain 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, John Buehler -- Nonexperimental versus experimental estimates of earnings impacts / Steven Glazerman, Dan M. Levy, David Myers -- The underprovision of experiments in political science / Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber -- Section 2. Resistance to experiments -- Why have educational evaluators chosen not to do randomized experiments? / Thomad D. Cook -- British randomized experiments on crime and justice / David P. Farrington -- Section 3. The growth of experimental evidence -- Using random allocation to evaluate social interventions: three recent U.K. examples / Ann Oakley [and others] -- 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 education sciences / Herbert Turner [and others] -- Section 4. Book review essay -- Experimental evidence and governmental administration / Lawrence W. Sherman.