1. 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 Gap between broad policing strategies and specific implementations Lack of other scientific evaluations of CP

2. November 22, 2005 POLS 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, 2005 POLS 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, 2005 POLS 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, 2005 POLS 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, 2005 POLS 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, 2005 POLS 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, 2005 POLS 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)