Impact of a university-government partnership in criminal justice: A linkage model for the 1990s

Abstract

Evaluation findings of a social experiment involving a university-government partnership in the Commonwealth of Kentucky are presented. The findings are based on telephone interviews in 1987 with 677 decision makers of state and local governmental offices who had been sent research products from six studies conducted over a two-year period by a university-based criminal justice statistical analysis center. It was found that dissemination strategies tended to be problematic in that one-third of the decision makers did not remember receiving any of the nine products. Among those who remembered receiving one product or more, however, a large majority rated the quality of the research as high, and they discussed the products or referred them to others. An “adequacy of performance” evaluation used the ratings of a panel of research utilization experts as the basis for comparing the level of research use. The panel found the performance of the university-state government partnership to be more than adequate in relation to the knowledge and experience of the panel members. Despite positive evaluation results and extensive productivity, the university-based model did not survive as originally designed. Implications for implementing future university-government partnerships are discussed.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 4 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.