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Providing students and practitioners with a comprehensive introduction to evaluation research, this book shows how social research methods and methodologies can be applied in a variety of evaluation contexts. The author: - illustrates the contribution both quantitative and qualitative methods can make to evaluation; - stresses the important part played by theory in the evaluation enterprise; - introduces some of the conceptual, methodological and practical problems encountered when undertaking this type of applied research, especially in the areas of criminal justice, health care and education.
Evaluating Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention Programmes
Evaluating Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention Programmes
Evaluation research has an important contribution to make to the development of policies and practice in the criminal justice system. Policy-makers need to have information about the relative effectiveness of different policy initiatives in order to make decisions about the future of existing ...
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