Tompson, L;
Belur, J;
Thornton, A;
Bowers, K;
Johnson, S;
Sidebottom, A;
Tilley, N;
(2021)
How Strong is the Evidence-Base for Crime Reduction End Users?
Justice Evaluation Journal
, 4
(1)
pp. 68-97.
10.1080/24751979.2020.1818275.
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Abstract
To support the development and implementation of evidence-based crime reduction, we systematically identified and appraised 70 systematic reviews of single crime reduction measures published between 1975 and 2015. Using the EMMIE framework, we find that the quality of reporting on the Effectiveness of crime reduction measures is reasonably strong, particularly in systematic reviews published by the Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations. In contrast, evidence concerning the Mechanisms underpinning a crime reduction intervention, the conditions that Moderate effectiveness, Implementation challenges and the Economic costs and benefits of crime reduction was largely absent from the assessed systematic reviews. We conclude that there is a distinct lack of systematic review evidence in crime reduction that currently speaks to the knowledge needs of practitioners (i.e., how to make an intervention “work” for them).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | How Strong is the Evidence-Base for Crime Reduction End Users? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/24751979.2020.1818275 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/24751979.2020.1818275 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Crime reduction, EMMIE, evidence-based policing, meta-analysis, systematic review |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10109071 |
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