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Results for crime prevention (chile)
1 results foundAuthor: Ruprah, Inder J. Title: An Impact Evaluation of a Neighbourhood Crime Prevention Program: Does Safer Commune Make Chileans Safer? Summary: Safer Commune is a neighbourhood crime prevention program in Chile. It has failed according to some critics who cite as evidence the rising crime rates and fear of crime in municipalities with the program. This is incorrect. Valid empirical evidence would be the crime rates that would have been observed without the program. Such an impact evaluation - using double difference propensity score method- reveals that the program has reduced high crimes particularly of two types of crimes namely battery and theft. Thus, high crimes would have been 19% higher in the communes without the program; the program has made Chileans safer. Active participation in the program by local residents has reduced insecurity and increased security; it reduced the fear of crime. However, with very low active participation in the program the scale of the effect is low. These positive evaluative findings suggest that an expansion of the program but simultaneously enhancing co-production of order through mechanisms to encourage local resident participation would have high returns. Details: Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank Office of Evaluation and Oversight. 2008. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 6, 2013 at: Working Paper: OVE/WP-09/08 Year: 2008 Country: Chile URL: Working Paper: OVE/WP-09/08 Shelf Number: 131587 Keywords: Community Crime PreventionCrime Prevention (Chile)Fear of CrimeNeighborhoods |