Evaluating Multi-Agency Anti-Crime Partnerships: Theory, Design, and Measurement Issues (From Evaluation for Crime Prevention: Crime Prevention Studies Volume 14, 171-225, 2002, Nick Tilley, ed., -- See NCJ-195626)

• NCJ Number: 195631
• Author(s): Dennis P. Rosenbaum
• Date Published: 2002
• Length: 55 pages
• Sale Source: Criminal Justice Press/Willow Tree Press
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

As part of an international series on evaluating crime prevention and crime reduction policies and practices, this paper considers the evaluation of multi-agency, anti-crime coalitions as influential in reducing crime.

Abstract

This paper, which is part of an international volume on evaluating crime prevention and crime reduction policies and practices, focuses on inter-organizational partnerships in community crime prevention and reduction. Addressing anti-crime partnerships as influential in implementing community crime interventions, this author follows a substantial literature review on partnerships with a discussion of evaluation design to test the effectiveness of multi-agency partnerships in crime reduction. Attempting to clarify issues involved in the conceptualization and measurement of multi-agency partnerships, this paper discusses the importance of measuring the larger political, economic, and organizational environment in which the partnership operates. This author contends that to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-agency partnerships on crime prevention, it is essential to understand the ways in which a parent organization’s managers, policies, and employees help to cultivate coalitions. References, notes