@article {Boyes-Watson:2012:1028-2580:265,
title = "Science cannot fix this: the limitations of evidence-based practice",
journal = "Contemporary Justice Review",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/gcjr",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2012",
volume = "15",
number = "3",
publication date ="2012-09-01T00:00:00",
pages = "265-275",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1028-2580",
eissn = "1477-2248",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/gcjr/2012/00000015/00000003/art00003",
doi = "doi:10.1080/10282580.2012.707421",
keyword = "evidence-based practice, criminal justice policy, alternatives to incarceration, community justice, restorative justice",
author = "Boyes-Watson, Carolyn and Pranis, Kay",
abstract = "The use of evidence-based practice as a guide for correctional investment is widely lauded as a positive shift away from punitive approaches to criminal justice. The value-neutral language of science, however, supplants a more fundamental and necessary dialog about core principles of
our justice system. We raise concern that the discourse of evidence-based practice serves to avoid accountability for the dominant correctional regime which remains overwhelmingly invested in the imposition of punishment. Furthermore, evidence-based practice privileges academic expertise and
de-legitimizes the knowledge base within affected communities stifling grassroots innovation and creativity.",
}