Policing and Program Evaluation

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Program evaluation is of vital importance for practitioners and researchers associated with policing. It goes without saying that we work in an era where the ultimate question asked of policing programs, as well as criminal justice programs in general, is "do they work?" Thus, it is crucial that policing researchers and practitioners know how to conduct scientific evaluations of their programs. Policing and Program Evaluation represents the first text to combine the "how to" of program evaluation with specific information about contemporary policing programs. In Policing and Program Evaluation, Dr. Kent R. Kerley and his colleagues provide an in-depth exploration of the process of program evaluation in policing. Leading scholars from universities and research organizations discuss recently completed evaluations of a plethora of different programs. The volume includes evaluations of community policing programs and training institutes, firearms suppression programs, gang units, crime prevention programs, and drug task forces. Instead of focusing solely on their findings, the authors focus on how they conducted their evaluations and the lessons they learned in the process. This new volume should prove useful to students, researchers, and practitioners of policing. Readers will learn about the "do's and don'ts" of program evaluation while simultaneously learning specific information about policing programs.