Editing Randomized controlled trial (section)

=== Criminology ===
A 2005 review found 83 randomized experiments in criminology published in 1982–2004, compared with only 35 published in 1957–1981.<ref name="Farrington-2005">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Farrington DP, Welsh BC |year=2005 |title=Randomized experiments in criminology: What have we learned in the last two decades? |journal=[[Journal of Experimental Criminology]] |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=9–38 |doi=10.1007/s11292-004-6460-0 |s2cid=145758503}}</ref> The authors classified the studies they found into five categories: "policing", "prevention", "corrections", "court", and "community".<ref name="Farrington-2005" />  Focusing only on offending behavior programs, Hollin (2008) argued that RCTs may be difficult to implement (e.g., if an RCT required "passing sentences that would randomly assign offenders to programmes") and therefore that experiments with [[quasi-experimental design]] are still necessary.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Hollin CR |year=2008 |title=Evaluating offending behaviour programmes: does only randomization glister? |journal=[[Criminology and Criminal Justice]] |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=89–106 |doi=10.1177/1748895807085871 |s2cid=141222135}}</ref>