November 15, 2005 1 POLS 4300.06PUBL 6800.03

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November 15, 2005 (1)POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Case Studies in Human Services/Justice
• RubinEffectivenessofOutreachCounselling
• About (1) Support Groups doing
• (2) Outreach Counselling
• (3) For Battered Women
• Consequences of Long term abuse
• Denial, lack of responsiveness to S. W.
• NOT A PSYCHIATRIC CONDITION!!

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November 15, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Need for an Externally Valid Procedure
• For Evaluating the Outcome Measures
• Of a Programs Outreach Services
• Without Unnecessary Delay
• Thus Focus isnotonBatteredWomen perse
• But rather on Counselling/Support Groups
• Sample 12 Women NOT living w batterers
• Generate realistic outcome goals by using
• Outcome Evaluations to measure improvement

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November 15, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Key Substantive Finding No Surprise!
• Cutbacks lead to closure of services
• Forcing more Women back into abuse
• Overshadowing methodological attempt to improve
  quality of Effectiveness measures
• Limited validityof aggegating singledesigns
• Less internal validity than more complex designs

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November 15, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Lehoux, Potvin, Proulx, Linking Users Views
  about Utilization Processes
• To Evaluate/Develop Interactive Software
• Key to UsersViews empirical methods
• Conceptual limits to taking users seriously
• Structuring Effect of Specific Interactive
  Technology on Users task organization
• Self assessmentNew Skills/Restructuring

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November 15, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Need for an Evaluation Framework
• To Clarify the Processes Involved
• In Adoption and Utilization of New Interactive
  Technologies
• Not just whether pro or con, but why?
• From abstract processes to concrete uses
• A situated, pragmatic understanding
• Of users assessments of specific technologies
• Requires an in depth understanding of users
  reasons

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November 15, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Carrington and Moyers, Gun Control Legislation
  and Firearms Suicide
• The Gun Control Controversy and Suicide
• Canadian Data,1991 Survey (before Rock)
• 1977 Legislation did not reduce firearms
• But did reduce of FIREARMS suicides
• But NOT other kinds of suicide
• Availability guns vs ammunition
• Issue of differential enforcement of legislation
• Urbanization the key variable held constant
• Attempt to correlate gun ownership and suicide
  rates

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November 15, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Umbreit and Pate,CrossNational Assessment ofa
  CanadianJustice Initiative
• Victim-Offender Reconciliation Project
• Victim offered mediation alternative
• As part of a cross national comparison
• Mediation 4 phases (intake, preparation,
  mediation, follow up)
• Effect on recidivism and prevention

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November 15, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

• Impact on Victim of confrontation/mediation
• Issue again of impact of methodological
  considerations on substantive findings
• Victim offender mediation and restitution
• Issue of confounds false causality
• Limited of studies and small samples
• Methodological issues 5 steps, research
  questions, cross national data collection and
  analysis (reliability and validity)