Questions about the Programmes That Backfire poster

What’s on the Programmes That Backfire poster?

A 5-row table: Programme · Intended effect · Found effect. Each of these was widely funded before it was properly evaluated. Scared straight — Deter young people — Increased offending; Boot camps — Instil discipline — No reliable effect; DARE, original form — Prevent drug use — No effect on use; Intensive supervision only — Deter by monitoring — More breach, no crime effect; Group work with peers — Change attitudes — Can spread antisocial norms. Educational reference. Scared straight is one of the clearest cases of an intervention found by trials to make outcomes worse.

Who is the Programmes That Backfire poster for?

Programmes That Backfire belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning policy & evidence can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Programmes That Backfire poster?

Use it to show that a plausible mechanism is not the same as evidence. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Programmes That Backfire belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Programmes That Backfire?

Cost-Benefit in Justice Policy, Certainty Beats Severity and Measuring Disproportionality sit alongside Programmes That Backfire in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Cost-Benefit in Justice PolicyCertainty Beats SeverityMeasuring Disproportionality

Is the Programmes That Backfire poster free to download and print?

Yes. Programmes That Backfire downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Programmes That Backfire poster print at?

Programmes That Backfire is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Programmes That Backfire loses nothing.Printing guide