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	Randomized Controlled Trial in Criminology	การทดลองสุ่มและมีกลุ่มควบคุม (Randomized Controlled Trial - RCT)
สาขาวิชา	Criminology	การออกแบบการทดลอง
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Hypothesis test
ปีกำเนิด	1995	1948
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Lawrence W. Sherman & David Weisburd	James Lind (early precursor, 1747); modern formulation: Austin Bradford Hill & Medical Research Council (1948)
ประเภท	Experimental impact evaluation of justice interventions	Interventional comparative study
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Sherman, L. W., & Weisburd, D. (1995). General deterrent effects of police patrol in crime hot spots: A randomized, controlled trial. Justice Quarterly, 12(4), 625–648.	Schulz, K.F., Altman, D.G., Moher, D., for the CONSORT Group (2010). CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomised Trials. BMJ, 340, c332.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Criminological Field Experiment, Experimental Criminology Trial, Place-Based Randomized Trial, Justice RCT	RCT, randomised controlled trial, clinical trial, Randomize Kontrollü Çalışma (RCT) Tasarımı
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	7
สรุป	A randomized controlled trial (RCT) in criminology evaluates a justice intervention — such as hot-spots policing, a deterrence message, or a reentry program — by randomly assigning units (places, people, or cases) to receive the intervention or to serve as controls. Because assignment is by chance, treatment and control groups are statistically equivalent at baseline, so any later difference in crime or reoffending can be attributed to the intervention rather than to selection. Sherman and Weisburd's 1995 Minneapolis hot-spots patrol experiment helped establish the design as the gold standard of experimental criminology.	A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is the gold standard experimental design in clinical and health research, in which participants are randomly allocated to a treatment group or a control group so that the effect of an intervention can be measured with the highest possible degree of internal validity. The modern parallel-group RCT was formalized by Austin Bradford Hill and the Medical Research Council in their landmark streptomycin trial of 1948, and its reporting is governed today by the CONSORT 2010 guidelines (Schulz et al., 2010).