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  • Evaluating crime prevention: Lessons from large-scale community crime prevention programs

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    Morgan, Anthony
    Homel, Peter
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    The Australian Institute of Criminology has spent a number of years working with crime prevention agencies across Australia reviewing large-scale programs that involve the delivery of varying activities directed at the prevention of crime. Taken as a whole, this experience has shown that, despite good intentions and aspirations to evidence-based practice, both the level and quality of evaluations have been limited by several practical challenges. In turn, this has hampered efforts to develop a body of good quality Australian evidence about what is effective in preventing crime and what is required in order to deliver effective interventions. Using previously unpublished data collected as part of the reviews of two national Australian crime prevention programs, the authors examine the practical factors that impact on evaluation and make a number of important recommendations for the evaluation of projects delivered as part of large-scale community crime prevention programs. The authors argue that rather than persisting with traditional approaches that encourage local organisations to undertake potentially expensive and time-consuming evaluations of their own work, program managers and central agencies must become more proactive and increasingly innovative in their approaches to evaluation.
    Journal Title
    Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
    Volume
    2013
    Publisher URI
    http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/441-460/tandi458.html
    Copyright Statement
    © 2013 Australian Institute of Criminology. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Causes and Prevention of Crime
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/59710
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