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November 22, 2005 POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

November 22, 2005 POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03. 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

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November 22, 2005 POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03

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  1. November 22, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03 • 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

  2. November 22, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03 • 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)

  3. November 22, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03 • Findings:ProgramImplementation(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

  4. November 22, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03 • 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’ • Figure5.1:Measurement Instruments(p.98) • Research Design and Findings(pp.99-116) • Criminal Justice Implications

  5. November 22, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03 • 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 Canada’sChildDevelopmentInitiative(1992) • To Develop Early Intervention Initiatives • To Promote the Health and Development • Of Young Children at Developmental Risk

  6. November 22, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03 • 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

  7. November 22, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03 • 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

  8. November 22, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03 • 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)

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