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Evaluating Crime Reduction
Johannes Knutsson and Nick Tilley, eds.
(hard cover)
2009, 200 pages
ISBN: 978-1-881798-82-8
$53.50

The quality of past evaluations in measuring the impact of crime prevention programs, and guidelines for improving future evaluations, are explored in this volume. The chapters are: “Introduction,” by the editors; “Is the Standard of Evaluations in Problem-Oriented Policing Projects Good Enough?,” by Knutsson; “The Pull, Push, and Expansion of Situational Crime Prevention Evaluation: An Appraisal of Thirty-seven Years of Research,” by Rob Guerette; “Using Signatures of Opportunity Structures to Examine Mechanisms in Crime Prevention Evaluations,” by John Eck and Tamara Maadensen; “Community Perceptions of Police Crime Prevention Efforts: Using Interviews in Small Areas to Evaluate Crime Reduction Strategies,” by Anthony Braga and Brenda Bond; “What’s the ‘What’ in ‘What Works?’: Health, Policing and Crime Prevention,” by Nick Tilley; “Estimating and Extrapolating Causal Effects for Crime Prevention Policy and Program Evaluation,” by Gary Henry; and “Potential Uses of Computational Methods in the Evaluation of Crime Reduction Activity,” by Shane Johnson.

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