The knowledge base of randomized evaluation in law continues to grow. The A2J Lab has compiled a bibliography of existing research and created summaries of those publications.
| Adele Harrell et al., Evaluation of the D.C. Superior Court Drug Intervention Programs, National Institute of Justice (2000). |
| Alan J. Tomkins, et al., An experiment in the law: studying a technique to reduce failure to appear in court, 48 Court Rev. 96 (2012). |
| Anne Schneider, Restitution and Recidivism Rates of Juvenile Offenders: Results from Four Experimental Studies, 24 Criminology 533 (1986). |
| Anthony Partridge & Allan Lind, A Reevaluation of the Civil Appeals Management Plan, Fed. Judic. Cent. (1983). |
| Brittany N. Rudd et al., Randomized control trial: Online parent program and waiting period for unmarried parents in Title IV-D court, 29 J Fam Psychol 679 (2015). |
| Carroll Seron et al., The Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants in New York City’s Housing Court: Results of a Randomized Experiment, 35 Law & Society Review 419 (2001). |
| Charles E. Ares; Anne Rankin; Herbert Sturz, The Manhattan Bail Project: An Interim Report on the use of Pre-Trial Parole, 38 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 67, 95 (1963). |
| Craig A. McEwen, An evaluation of the ADR pilot project, 7 Maine Bar Journal (1992). |
| David Abrams & Chris Rohlfs, Optimal bail and the value of freedom: evidence from the Philadelphia bail experiment, 49 Economic Inquiry 750 (2011). |
| David C. Steelman & Jerry Goldman, The Settlement Conference: Experimenting with Appellate Justice, National Center for State Courts (1986). |
| Denise C. Gottfredson et al., How Drug Treatment Courts Work: An Analysis of Mediators, 44 Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 3 (2007). |
| Denise C. Gottfredson & Lyn Exum, The Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court: One-Year Results From a Randomized Study, 39 Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquincy 337–356 (2002). |
| Denise C. Gottfredson et al., Effectiveness of Drug Treatment Courts: Evidence From a Randomized Trial, 2 Criminology & Public Policy 171 (2003). |
| Douglas Marlowe et al., Are Judicial Status Hearings a Key Component of Drug Court?: During-Treatment Data From a Randomized Trial, 30 Criminal Justice and Behavior 141 (2003). |
| Elizabeth Piper Deschenes, et al., Drug Court or Probation?: An Experimental Evaluation of Maricopa County’s Drug Court, 18 The Justice System Journal 55 (1995). |
| Ernest Fazio et al., Evaluation of the Early Representation by Defense Counsel Field Test. Washington, D.C.: US Dep. Justice, Natl. Inst. Justice (1984). |
| Frances Margolin, Counseling in Contested Custody and Visiting in a Court Setting, 8 Family Court Law Review 11 (1970). |
| James B. Eaglin, The pre-argument conference program in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals: an evaluation (1990). |
| D. James Greiner & Andrea Matthews, Randomized Control Trials in the United States Legal Profession, SSRN Electronic Journal 295 (2016). |
| D. James Greiner, et al. The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court and Prospects for the Future. 126 Harvard Law Review 901 (2013). |
| James S. Kakalik et al., An Evaluation of Mediation and Early Neutral Evaluation Under the Civil Justice Reform Act, Institute For Civil Justice (1996). |
| Jayne Zuberbuhler, The Use of Court-Ordered Mediation in the Initial Stages of Divorce Litigation to Resolve Parenting Issues, 39 Family Court Review 203 (2001). |
| Jerry Goldman, Ineffective Justice: Evaluating the Preappeal Conference (1980). |
| John S. Goldkamp & Michael Gottfredson, Judicial guidelines for bail: the Philadelphia experiment, U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, (1984). |
| John S. Goldkamp & Michael D. White, Restoring accountability in pretrial release: the Philadelphia pretrial release supervision experiments, 2 J Exp Criminol 143 (2006). |
| Keith S. Ditman et al., A Controlled Experiment on the Use of Court Probation for Drunk Arrests, 124 Am. J. Psychiatry 160 (1967). |
| Larry Heuer & Steven Penrod, Increasing Jurors’ Participation in Trials: A Field Experiment with Jury Notetaking and Question Asking, 12 Law and Human Behavior 231 (1988). |
| Larry Heuer & Steven Penrod, Juror notetaking and question asking during trials: a national field experiment. 18 Law Hum. Behav. 121 (1994). |
| Larry Heuer & Steven Penrod, Trial complexity: a field investigation of its meaning and its effects, 18 Law Hum. Behav. 29 (1994). |
| Lynette Feder & Laura Dugan, A test of the efficacy of court-mandated counseling for domestic violence offenders: The Broward experiment, 19 Justice Quarterly 343 (2002). |
| Marvin Mandell & Andrea Marshall, The Effects of Court-Ordered Mediation in Workers’ Compensation Cases Filed in Circuit Court: Results From an Experiment Conducted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, UMBC (2002), https://courts.state.md.us/sites/default/files/import/macro/reports/baltcitywork ercompreportfinal.pdf |
| Melissa Labriola et al., Do Batterer Programs Reduce Recidivism?: Results from a Randomized Trial in the Bronx, 25 Justice Quarterly 252 (2008). |
| Melissa Labriola et al., Testing the Effectiveness of Batterer Programs and Judicial Monitoring: Results from a Randomized Trial at the Bronx Misdemeanor Domestic Violence Court (Center for Court Innovation) (2005), http://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/battererprogramseffectiveness.pdf. |
| Nancy Thoennes, Permanent custody mediation: Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, juvenile division, Center for Policy Research 85 (2001). |
| Paula Hannaford-Agor et al., Permitting Jury Discussions During Trial: Impact of the Arizona Reform, Cornell Law Faculty Publications (2000). |
| Pearson and Thoennes, A preliminary portrait of client reactions to three court mediation programs, Conflict Resolution Quarterly 21 (1984). |
| Peter W. Greenwood & Susan Turner, Evaluation of the Paint Creek Youth Center: A Residential Program for Serious Delinquents, 31 Criminology 263 (1993). |
| Robert Davis et al., Does Batterer Treatment Reduce Violence? A Randomzied Experiment in Brooklyn, US Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, (2000), https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/180772.pdf. |
| Roger A. Hanson & George W. Hersey, Appellate Court Congestion, or How Do You Spell R-E-L-I-E-F?, 1 Governing Florida 11 (1991). |
| Sally Hillsman Baker & Susan Sadd, Diversion of Felony Arrests: An Experiment in Pretrial Intervention, US Dep. Justice, Natl. Inst. Justice (1981). |
| Stephen Weitzman, Early Representation by Defense Counsel in Shelby County, Tennessee 1982-1983, Final Report, National Institute of Justice Report (1983). |
| Steven H. Clarke et al., Court Ordered Civil Case Mediation In North Carolina: An Evaluation Of Its Effects (1995). |
| Wayne Kobbervig, Mediation of civil cases in Hennepin county: An evaluation, Minnesota Judicial Center (1991). |
| William Vaughn Stapleton & Lee E. Teitelbaum, In Defense of Youth: A Study of the Role of Counsel in American Juvenile Courts (1972). |
