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4 results foundAuthor: Wijckmans, Belinda Title: Evaluation of crime prevention initiatives Summary: This third toolbox in the series published by the EuCpn Secretariat focuses on the main theme of the irish presidency, which is the evaluation of crime prevention initiatives. the theme is explored and elaborated in various ways through: a literature review; two workshops with international experts and practitioners during which the strengths and weaknesses of programme evaluation were discussed in detail; a screening of existing guidelines and manuals on evaluation; and finally, a call which was launched by the EUCPN Secretariat to the Member States to collect some practices on the evaluation of crime prevention initiatives. Details: Brussels: European Crime Prevention Network, 2013. 82p. Source: Internet Resource: EUCPN Toolbox Series No. 3: Accessed May 19, 2016 at: http://eucpn.org/sites/default/files/content/download/files/eucpn_toolbox_3_-_evaluation_of_crime_prevention_initiativeswebversion_final_0.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Europe URL: http://eucpn.org/sites/default/files/content/download/files/eucpn_toolbox_3_-_evaluation_of_crime_prevention_initiativeswebversion_final_0.pdf Shelf Number: 139112 Keywords: Crime Prevention Program Evaluation |
Author: Rummens, Anneleen Title: Criteria for the evaluation of crime prevention practices Summary: The European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN) provides a platform for its members to discuss and disseminate best practices in crime prevention. Essential in identifying best practices in crime prevention, is the evaluation of crime prevention projects. A crucial step in any evaluation process is the identification and registration of indicators (EUCPN 2013, UNODC 2010, Morgan & Homel 2013). Indicators provide measurable information on the implementation, efficiency and effectiveness of a crime prevention programme. They can be applied to evaluate projects against specific criteria in an intersubjective and rigorous manner. Information on the identification and use of indicators in the evaluation process of crime prevention projects is nevertheless currently lacking. The EUCPN has therefore commissioned this study to provide an overview of relevant indicators and their application in the evaluation of crime prevention projects1 . The following central research questions will be addressed: 1. What are the most important indicators, both general and specific, for the identification of best practices in crime prevention? 2. How can those indicators be applied in a user-friendly evaluation model? 3. Which conditions need to be taken into account when applying the evaluation model? Each question will be elaborated on in a separate part. The objectives of the three parts are defined as follows: ● Part I: Identification of indicators -Provide an overview of the most important indicators, both general and specific per type of evaluation, type of prevention, type of group targeted by the prevention measure and type of crime; ● Part II: Development of an evaluation model -Develop specific criteria including the previously determined indicators; -Develop a practical evaluation model; -Provide a user-friendly evaluation tool (Excel score form) for applying the model. ● Part III: Testing and improving the evaluation model -Improve and tweak the evaluation model further based on feedback from practitioners; -Determine the conditions under which the evaluation model needs to be applied. Details: Ghent: Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, Ghent University, 2016. 100p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 12, 2016 at: http://eucpn.org/sites/default/files/content/download/files/2016_10_04_eucpn_evaluation_crime_prevention_practices_final.pdf Year: 2016 Country: Europe URL: http://eucpn.org/sites/default/files/content/download/files/2016_10_04_eucpn_evaluation_crime_prevention_practices_final.pdf Shelf Number: 145438 Keywords: Crime PreventionProgram EvaluationSituational Crime Prevention |
Author: Glazzard, Andrew Title: Global Evaluation of the European Union Engagement on Counter-Terrorism Summary: This report presents the findings of an evaluation of the EU's external interventions in counter-terrorism (CT), including preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) carried out in the first semester of 2018. The evaluation does not cover the entirety of the EU's CT interventions, but only those financed by the EU's external instruments. The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the relevance, coherence, efficiency and impact of the EU's interventions in order to determine the extent to which the objectives and desired outcomes of the EU's CT policy have so far been achieved. Details: The Hague, Netherlands: International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, 2018. 35p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 9, 2018 at: https://icct.nl/publication/global-evaluation-of-the-european-union-engagement-on-counter-terrorism/ Year: 2018 Country: International URL: https://icct.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/eu-ct-evaluation-v7-final.pdf Shelf Number: 153949 Keywords: Countering Terrorism FinancingCountering Violent ExtremismCounterterrorismImpact EvaluationIntervention ProgramsPreventing Violent ExtremismProgram EvaluationViolent Extremism |
Author: Worden, Robert E. Title: Reflections on Compstat in the Community Era of Policing Summary: CompStat is an administrative innovation designed to hold mid-level police commanders accountable for achieving crime-reduction results. Introduced as part of the "reengineering" of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in the mid-1990s, CompStat has been widely emulated by police agencies across the United States and around the world. CompStat has also been adopted by other types of public agencies and by city mayors and even state governors; Robert Behn calls it, more generically, "PerformanceStat." In theory, CompStat can be an organizational mechanism that serves first to direct attention to important police outcomes and second to stimulate the formulation and implementation of tactical and strategic operations that are directed toward those outcomes. It appears to have been successful in the NYPD in terms of crime reduction, though no rigorous evaluation has been conducted. No agency is like the NYPD, however, and in order to reap the benefits of CompStat, care must be taken to adapt the structure and process of CompStat to the distinct settings of individual police agencies while remaining true to the fundamental tenets of CompStat. But research shows that as popular as CompStat has become in police circles, it is one thing to have an administrative structure that resembles CompStat and quite another to have a structure that stimulates innovative, data-driven problem solving by operational commanders. Realizing the potential of CompStat in different agency settings is a challenge. Moreover, the further evolution of CompStat in the community era of policing confronts challenges both in harnessing its organizational power to the range of outcomes for which the public holds police responsible and in applying CompStat-like principles and mechanisms to the implementation of community policing. We consider these challenges in this paper. We draw on the literature and also our observations and interviews in several police departments in the course of conducting research or providing technical assistance. We have, in the course of our work as research partners, observed CompStat meetings in several agencies ranging in size from about 500 to 1,500 sworn officers in addition to the NYPD. We have also assisted two smaller agencies (with about 150 sworn officers) in upstate New York in establishing CompStat mechanisms and evaluating their processes through their first year of operation, and we conducted a process evaluation of a third agency's CompStat mechanism. Details: New York City, NY: Vera Institute of Justice, 2018. 15p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 9, 2019 at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327101050_Reflections_on_CompStat_in_the_Community_Era_of_Policing Year: 2018 Country: United States URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327101050_Reflections_on_CompStat_in_the_Community_Era_of_Policing Shelf Number: 154375 Keywords: Community Policing Compstat Crime Reduction Data Driven Law Enforcement New York City Police Department Police Agencies Policing Program Evaluation |