ABSTRACT
Understand the importance of evaluating a crime prevention project• Understand the general principles and methods of a project evaluation• Understand the steps required of a project evaluation• Have acquired some of the basic skills to evaluate a crime prevention project• Be able to write an evaluation proposal and an evaluation report• Know when and how to modify the crime prevention activities, based on the eval-• uation as well as other input
This chapter explores the steps involved in Phases Three and Four of the crime prevention project: evaluating and modifying the project. This chapter begins by describing the principles of a project evaluation generally and then outlines the basic steps necessary for a rigorous, fruitful, and accurate assessment of a crime prevention project. Conducting a project evaluation need not be intimidating; it can be a straightforward process that produces meaningful results, if a few general rules and principles are followed.
