Over the last two decades, there has been growing momentum behind efforts to produce policy-related research that is both rigorous and theoretically informed. Yet despite broad disciplinary support for translational criminology and its attendant effects on bridging the gap between criminological research and practice, the movement has faced a number of challenges. Some of these have arisen within the discipline itself, including resistance by criminologists who claim that researchers should avoid making policy recommendations due to the causal uncertainty of our scientific knowledge. Others, however, emanate from the applied settings in which efforts to advance translational criminology and evidence-based criminal justice policy are being undertaken. Chief among these is the role of politics. In this article, we begin by tracing the development of criminology, including its focus on causality and more recent embrace of translational efforts. Then, drawing on examples from state and local translational initiatives, we discuss a range of political considerations and impediments, their potential effects on translational efforts, and promising practices for translational criminologists to consider. We conclude by underscoring the importance of establishing a more prominent role for translational criminology and ways in which we, as criminologists, must adapt to achieve this goal.

在过去的二十年里，进行严谨且理论丰富的政策相关研究的努力背后的势头越来越大。然而，尽管转化犯罪学及其对弥合犯罪学研究与实践之间差距的附带影响得到了广泛的学科支持，但该运动仍面临着许多挑战。其中一些出现在该学科本身，包括犯罪学家的抵制，他们声称由于我们科学知识的因果不确定性，研究人员应该避免提出政策建议。然而，其他人则来自正在努力推进转化犯罪学和循证刑事司法政策的应用环境。其中最主要的是政治的作用。在本文中，我们首先追溯犯罪学的发展，包括它对因果关系的关注以及最近对转化工作的接受。然后，我们借鉴州和地方翻译倡议的例子，讨论一系列政治考虑和障碍，它们对翻译工作的潜在影响，以及翻译犯罪学家可以考虑的有前途的做法。最后，我们强调了为转化犯罪学确立更突出作用的重要性，以及我们作为犯罪学家必须采用的方式来实现这一目标。它们对翻译工作的潜在影响，以及可供翻译犯罪学家考虑的有前途的做法。最后，我们强调了为转化犯罪学确立更突出作用的重要性，以及我们作为犯罪学家必须采用的方式来实现这一目标。它们对翻译工作的潜在影响，以及可供翻译犯罪学家考虑的有前途的做法。最后，我们强调了为转化犯罪学确立更突出作用的重要性，以及我们作为犯罪学家必须采用的方式来实现这一目标。