Randomized Evaluation Design In Lawrence Sherman's Policing Domestic Violence

Randomized evaluation design is used to randomly assign resources or to measure programs effectiveness. For example, the study conducted by Lawrence Sherman’s book Policing Domestic Violence: Experiments and Dilemmas, he conducted an evaluation of domestic violence and used police officers arrest of men committing violence against their girlfriends or spouses. Sherman’s research had officers selectively arrest men for domestic violence, or provide mediate or sending the suspect out of the home for the night. The research was done randomly at the conclusion of the it was determined that arresting of employed offenders reduced domestic violence, but amongst unemployed offenders, it did not cut domestic violence