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

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

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

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  1. 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!!

  2. November 15, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03 • Need for an Externally Valid Procedure • For Evaluating the Outcome Measures • Of a Program’s 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

  3. 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

  4. November 15, 2005POLS 4300.06/PUBL 6800.03 • Lehoux, Potvin, Proulx, Linking User’s Views about Utilization Processes • To Evaluate/Develop Interactive Software • Key to User’sViews: empirical methods • Conceptual limits to taking users seriously • Structuring Effect of Specific Interactive Technology on User’s task organization • Self assessment:New Skills/Restructuring

  5. 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 user’s assessments of specific technologies • Requires an in depth understanding of user’s reasons

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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)

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