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• Hornick et al, Evaluating Community Policing
  (CP) the Edmonton Project
• Paradigm shift Community Driven Policing
• Shift to Family/Domestic Interventions
• 3 Problems with Shift from values and theory to
  specific goals objectives
• Gap between broad policing strategies and
  specific implementations
• Lack of other scientific evaluations of CP

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• Focus here is on third problem
• Need to review the state of evaluations of
  community policing in Canada (1992-3)
• Evaluating the evaluators the uncritical use of
  U.S. studies a major issue (p.64)
• Improving CP program components-mission, goals,
  strategies, tactics (pp.66-9)
• Implementation objectives success
• Measuring Impact and Effectiveness (pp70-80)

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• FindingsProgramImplementation(pp.80-4)
• Findings Program Impact (pp. 85-9)
• Conclusions, Recommendations, Actions and
  Responses (pp.89-92)
• Considered Methodologically Innovative and
  Rigorous by any N. Amer. Standard
• Substantively Important for Endorsing CP as
  Preferred Philosophical, Organizational and
  Operational Approach for Edmonton

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• Linden et al, An Evaluation Study of Women in
  Policing
• Literature review (pp. 93-9)
• 3 Major themes performance of female police
  officers attitudes toward female officers by
  male officers policing styles
• Figure5.1Measurement Instruments(p.98)
• Research Design and Findings(pp.99-116)
• Criminal Justice Implications

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• Boyle and Willms, Impact Evaluation of a
  National, Community-Based Program for At-Risk
  Children in Canada (2002)
• Community Action Program for Children (CAPC)
  Core component of Govt. of CanadasChildDevelopmen
  tInitiative(1992)
• To Develop Early Intervention Initiatives
• To Promote the Health and Development
• Of Young Children at Developmental Risk

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• National Evaluation Framework (1994)
• To Examine the Impact of CAPC
• Focusing on selected indicators of child, parent
  and family functioning (24 months)
• Method longitudinal comparison between
• Sampleof families interviewedatentry(95-6)
• and re-interviewed at 9 24 months later
• And control sample
• Sampling intervals provided by Statscan

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• 6 measures representing 3 areas of proposed
  impact for CAPC
• Child health and functioning
• Parenting skills
• Family vulnerability
• Taken in 3 phases as indicated for experimental
  and control group families
• Trajectory achieved by regressing repeated
  measurements over time on time itself

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• Table 1 Concepts and Measures (p. 466)
• Samplecomparabilityandresults(pp. 467-8)
• Program variation and test of significance (pp.
  469-71)
• Discussion findings (pp. 471-2)
• Limitations, significance and sample size (pp.
  472-4)
• Quantitative vs. qualitative perspectives
• Policy issues,principlesandeffectiveness(475-9)